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• Great Lakes Fishery Commission's TGLFC) Committee of the Whole. 

 Operations Subcommittee. Lake Superior Technical Committee. Lake 

 Superior Committee. Law Enforcement Committee, and Ruffe Task 

 Force - GLFC was established by the Convention on Great Lakes 

 Fisheries between Canada and the United States, which was ratified in 

 1955. See 16 USC § 931, et se^. GLFC coordinates programs of 

 research in the Great Lakes and makes recommendations which will 

 permit the maximum sustained productivity of fish stocks. It also 

 carries out sea lamprey control programs. The various GLFC 

 committees on which GLIFWC sits are comprised of governmental 

 representatives from the Canadian and provincial governments and 

 from the United States federal, state and tribal governments. Their 

 purpose is to advise GLFC's Canadian and United States 

 Commissioners on technical and policy matters. 



• Technical Committees of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 (USFWS) Mississippi Flvway Council - The Technical Committees, 

 comprised of federal, state and tribal biologists, advise the Flyway 

 Council on the status of waterfowl populations and their habitat The 

 Flyway Council, comprised of representatives of state natural resource 

 management agencies, makes recommendations to USFWS on 

 migratory bird hunting season frameworks. 



• Great Lakes Panel of the USFWS Aquatic Nuisance Species Task 

 Force - The Task Force, created by the Nonindigenous Aquatic 

 Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990, P.L. 101-646, 104 StaL 

 4761, consists of representatives of federal, state and tribal resource 

 management agencies. Its purpose is to assist governments in 

 preventing and controlling nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species, 

 including the zebra mussel and ruffe in the Great Lakes. 



GLIFWC has also undertaken a number of specific co-management projects. These 

 include: 



• Environmental Health Laboratory. Lake Superior Research Institute. 

 University of Wisconsin-Superior - In 1990, GLIFWC and UW- 

 Superior entered into a cooperative agreement for the establishment 

 of an Environmental Health Laboratory. This laboratory has 

 undertaken a number of studies regarding the health effects of 

 contaminated fish on Indian people. 



• Ceded Territory Cooperative Wetlands Enhancement Project - Funded 

 by GLIFWC and in cooperation with Wisconsin Department of Natural 



OUFWC Tetiimony 

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