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The winter ice melt deaths of millions of alewives was a waste of unused salmon feed that could have been used to stock Lake Erie with Chinook salmon from our state hatchery system. This addition would increase the recreational demands;

The "Dirty Air? emitted from weekend power plant operations is cancelled out by battery storage energy supplied from windmill and solar operations. The "Tornado, hurricane and flooding damages" resulting from dirty air emitted from coal, oil burning sources started up to supply high power demand situations. Your local costs here are shared with increases in motor vehucle. home owner insurance costs no matter where you live and own. boating insurance!

Summer homesites on the lake shore are our highest value homes.

Waterfront homes with an adjacent boat dock are highly desired and higher values sites. Look at the home prices in Florida and our coastal areas..

The emerald shiners move into Lake Erie where they feed upon plankton critters in mid June. Bait dealers in Huron, Ohio set inner tube floats with white gas Coleman Lanterns in lake waters to attract emeralds in the lights. They travel out at night to scoop bait near their lanterns. My travels to Erie Pennsylvania bait dealer's showboats with a stack of electric quartz lights on the bow after they anchor up to attract emeralds for their bait business now that the yellow perch catches are numerous. I was stationed at the Huron light house in my Coast Guard time and the shallow shoals there were perch and walleye takes were with trap nets that kept their fish alive for harvest without spoilage as immediate ice was added on their catch. The clear eyes and bright red gills were indicators of fresh fish.

Emeralds leave the River at 42 degree water temperatures, What is it now?

Our Federal Government spends Millions of dollars maintaining a safe from high winds a useful safe haven for ships and recreational boats for for public uses and the wasting access areas along the unused Union Ship Canal Waterway for boating, docking and launching boats and parking their vehicles. Let us return these areas nearby to public use. The Iron and Steel Plants have abandoned this area and even worse so have our public agencies. As a public area with park development it would enhance the value of homes and business.Miami Beach as an example as Million dollar homes with million mile views and employee travel times for families. Look the smoke, dust and dirt are gone today and local business would have nearby homesites available. Public power, potable water supply and electric services are here. Sanitary services are close by with buildable homesites available Five minutes from downtown is here now. Buffalo City Tax base will increase with new homes as both sides of the Canal are in City limits. Are our political elected leaders blind to opportunity here in our front yard.

Access to Eastern Lake Erie walleye and yellow perch catches was successful from the vacant Union Ship Canal. Our Blue Pike catches were successful from off the Crystal Beach Site in 55 foot of water which is god all along the Canadian shorelines. Southern Erie County boayers will use it since the. It is a long drive to the Cattaraugus and Dunkirk ramps. Sturgeon Point Boat Ramps are always unavailable early to due, Sand siltation condiions. Permannent floating boat docks at the Union Ship Canal are available during high winds and high water levels. The small Boat Harbor Docks are jammed all the time so your boating times are enhanced.

Not only home insurance losses but boat and vehicle losses due to floodwaters destroying cars, boats and and resales prices.

Our Power Plant Dirty Air? Clean Air is in the future. After decades of tornadoes, hurricanes and floods in Southern States of the USA which we are paying for resulting from our demand to heat, air condition and power demands. Whether you are against wind mills and solar power you must wake up as your home insurance costs are a result of dirty air produced for global warming.

You Tube Search has many hours of new Commercial Fishing reports from Alaska, Seattle and North Pacific production, processing and distribution. Stories of Petersburg Alaska, Bristol Bay and cod fish. You will not believe you will watch TV so much for several days at least.

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The Port Dover Trawlers Donna F and Omsteader bust ice to trawl for smelt in Lake Erie waters. You Tube search videos.

Smelt trawling with Trawl Seines on open Lake Erie waters

Netting the waters

You tube search for "Netting the Waters"

Ice breaking with smelt trawlers Donna F. and the Omsteader and trawling seins.

Netting the waters

You Tube Search "Ketchikan, Alaska Videos" 20 mile drive around, boats, fishing, cruise ships, charter boats, boat ramps, fishing and airplane flights, My Coast Guard service areas.

Years ago during the Blue Pike fishery times, my father stored our boat in the canal behind the bridge.. We headed out the south gap to 55 foot of water off the Crystal Beach Park docks. Now with Hanna Blast Furnaces and Bethlehem Steel operations history, The lack of boat moorings and Boat ramps water can be made available for especially south town residents. Sail boat masts are limited by the bridge clearances, but there are plenty of sail boats in Buffalo Harbor waters. Show your interest in access here and maybe our political leaders can champion a movement for quicker safer docks with closer parking for the users of this vacant area.

This spring ice melt down turned up an alewife death crisis. Maybe more salmon will be stocked in Lake Erie because alewife in Lake Ontario determine stocking rates there. King and Coho salmon numbers will influence the angler use.

Trap nets are tar coated webbing that lead migration schools of fish to a heart area where escapement is improbable. The nets are pulled up and the live fish are dip netted into boxes on the boat They are then iced to keep the fish preserved and brought ashore for processing and round whitefish are smoked and sold locally or at Buffalo's Broadway Market.

WE also used a restaurant potato peeler to scale small perch. Charlies Seafood in Hamburg used an Electric Motor driven flexible shaft scaler for walleyes, blue pike, and Frozen Lake Winnepeg fish. Se at Netcraft store.