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4. Conduct of fisheries protection and enhancement 

 programs and access development. 



COTFMA carries out all of the above self-regulation 

 functions, through the actions of the entities next 

 described. 



1. Regulations . The COTFMA Board of Directors enacts 

 the uniform regulations applicable to all tribal members 

 seeking to exercise the treaty right to fish. (The 

 composition of the Board is described herein.) Each Tribe 

 has the power to enact its own regulations governing 

 subsistence fishing, as well as to implement commercial 

 fishing regulations which are more restrictive than 

 adopted by COTFMA. These regulations, as well as initial 

 consideration of the uniform regulations, are adopted by 

 each Tribe's Conservation Committee. 



2. Enforcement Personnel . Each of the member Tribes 

 has a conservation department, which employs law 

 enforcement personnel to detect violations of the COTFMA 

 regulations and those enacted by each Tribe. Bay Mills 

 and Grand Traverse Band's wardens are employed for this 

 sole purpose. Personnel employed by the Sault Ste. Marie 

 Tribe are termed "public safety" officers, and combine 

 general law enforcement duties with conservation 

 enforcement responsibilities. Each conservation 

 enforcement program is the subject of a contract with the 

 Bureau of Indian Affairs under P.L. 93-638. The Bureau 

 supplements the enforcement staff with its own 

 conservation warden component. 



3. Conservation Court . Members of the Bay Mills 

 Indian Community and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe who 

 violate treaty fishing regulations are cited to appear 

 before the Chippewa-Ottawa Conservation Court. This 

 Court's exclusive purpose is to adjudicate such 

 violations, for the two Tribes each separately maintain a 

 Tribal Court for adjudication of other matters. The Court 

 is administered by the Bay Mills Indian Community under a 

 P.L. 93-638 contract. Distance from this forum for the 

 Grand Traverse Band caused the Tribe to obtain a separate 

 contract for adjudication of fishing violations in its 

 Tribal Court. 



4. Management Functions . Fisheries assessment and 

 enhancement activities are carried out by the Inter-Tribal 

 Fisheries and Assessment Program, which is administered by 

 the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe under a P.L. 93-638 contract. 

 The Program conducts population studies and analyses, 

 operates a fish hatchery, stocks hatchery- 

 produced fish, advises the Board on the need for 

 conservation regulations, coordinates its activities with 



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