Lake Huron Committee

• Members (last updated: 04/2011)
• Publications and Products
• Terms of Reference
• Subcommittee
  • Lake Huron Technical Committee (LHTC)
  • St. Marys River Fishery Task Group (SMRFTG)

The Lake Huron Committee consists of senior staff members from Michigan DNR, Ontario MNR, and the Chippewa-Ottawa Resource Authority (CORA). The Committee's purposes are to: 

• consider issues pertinent to, or referred by, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission;
• consider issues and problems of common concern to member agencies;
• develop and coordinate joint programs and research projects; and 
• serve as a forum for state, provincial, tribal, and federal agencies. 

For deliberations of this Committee, Lake Huron shall be considered to include all of Lake Huron from the compensating gates of Sault Ste. Marie on the St. Marys River to its St. Clair River outlet, and, to the extent that they affect fish stocks of common concern, its bays, harbors, and tributaries. Decisions will be reached by consensus of the membership. When consensus cannot be achieved, the concerns of all agencies shall be described in the Committee's report to the Commission.

 

Members

David McLeish, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Chair
Todd Grischke, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Vice-chair
Tom Gorenflo, Chippewa-Ottawa Resource Authority

 

Publications and Products

Miscellaneous

• Strategy and Options for Promoting the Rehabilitation of Cisco in Lake Huron
• Lake Huron Environmental Objectives
  • Environmental Objectives: Overview

Special publications

• Fish-community objectives for Lake Huron
• A lake trout restoration guide for Lake Huron
• The State of Lake Huron in 2004
• The State of Lake Huron in 1999
• The State of Lake Huron in 1992

Press Releases

• May 27, 1997: Landmark Great Lakes Fisheries Management Plan to be Signed in Ottawa (News Release)
  • A Joint Strategic Plan for Management of Great Lakes Fisheries: 1997 Revision
• April 8, 1997 Lake Huron Committee: Lake Huron Committee Sanctions Plan to Control St. Marys River Sea Lampreys (News Release)
• April 4, 1996 St. Marys River Lamprey Control Key to the Health of the Lake Huron Fishery

Executive Summaries

• March 2005
• March 2004
• March 2003
• March 2002
• March 2001
• March 2000
• March 1999
• March 1998
• March 1997
• March 1996
• March 1994
• March 1993

GIS database

• Lake Huron GIS Database

 

Terms of Reference

COMMITTEE NAME
 Lake Huron Committee

AREA OF CONCERN
For deliberations of this Committee, Lake Huron shall be considered to include all of Lake Huron from the compensating gates at Sault Ste. Marie on the St. Marys River to its St. Clair River outlet, and, to the extent that they affect fish stocks of common concern, its bays, harbors, and tributaries.
 

COMMITTEE PURPOSE

1. To consider issues pertinent to, or referred by, the Great lakes Fishery Commission that are within the Committee's authority or under its auspices.
2. To consider issues and problems of common concern to Michigan, Ontario, and/or the Chippewa Ottawa Treaty Fishery Management Authority - these may be of interest to the Commission.
3. To develop and coordinate joint state/provincial/federal/tribal programs and research projects.
4. To decide issues for referral to the Great lakes Fishery Commission or Council of Lake Committees for direction, resolution or support.
5. To serve as a forum for state, provincial, tribal, and federal agencies, and others, on a need/request basis.
6. To decide protocol for Committee operation, establish operational procedures for internal committees, develop meeting agenda, and elect officers.

 

MEETING SCHEDULE
The Committee shall meet annually at a time and place determined by the Committee.  The meeting shall be sufficiently in advance of the council of Lake Committees meeting and Annual Meeting of the Great Lakes Fishery commission to allow the preparation of material, reports, and recommendations for commission review and action at the Annual meeting.  Additional Committee meetings may be convened by the Committee Chairman to deal with special items of business.
 

MEMBERSHIP
The Committee shall consist of a senior staff member from the Michigan DNR, Ontario MNR, and the Chippewa Ottawa Fishery Management Authority.  Representatives should be able to speak for their respective agencies.  Each agency will designate an alternate who will serve in the absence of the member.  The Committee shall be assisted by experts and advisors from all agencies concerned.
 

OFFICERS

1. Chairman: The Chairman shall be a voting member and shall serve for two years.  The chair shall rotate among the member agencies in the following order beginning in 1987: MDNR, CORA, OMNR.  The new Chairman's term of office shall begin immediately following the Committee's annual meeting in odd-numbered years; the outgoing Chairman shall be responsible for presenting the Committee's report at the Commission's Annual Meeting.
2. Vice-chairman: A Committee member of the opposite country to that of the chairman shall serve as Vice-chairman, and shall perform the functions of Chairman in the Chairman's absence.  An American Vice-chairman will be selected by members from the United States.

ADVISORS
 The Committee may request, as the need arise, expert advice or study on problems identified by the Committee.
 

ROLE OF SECRETARIAT
The Secretariat provides liaison between Committee and Commission, by assisting the Committee in the development and distribution of meeting agenda and minutes, and the preparation of briefing materials and reports as required.  The Secretariat also assists in making meeting arrangements.
 

DECISIONS
Decisions will be reached by a consensus of the membership.  When consensus cannot be achieved, the concerns of all agencies shall be described in the committee's report to the Commission.
 

SUB-COMMITTEES
The Committee may, as it deems necessary, establish sub-committees.
 

REPORTING
The Committee shall transmit to the commission prior to the Commission's Annual Meeting, a report of the Committee's annual meeting including agency reports, reports of special committees and resolutions.
The Committee may request endorsement of its recommendations by the Council of Lake Committees and refer to the Council of Lake Committees items which have implications beyond the Committee's jurisdiction.
   

21 June 1989
 

 

Photo: American Fisheries Society