3.13.130 Quota on Lean Lake Trout

(a) The Fisheries Office, with the approval by resolution of the Tribal Council, shall set the tribe's annual quota for lean lake trout, in cooperation with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and the State of Wisconsin.

(b) The commercial fishery quota for lean lake trout shall be the tribe's quota minus an amount to be determined by the Fisheries Office not to exceed 1,000 set aside for the home use fishery.

(c) The Fisheries Office, upon consultation with representatives from each commercial license classification, shall divide the commercial fishery quota among the classifications and shall issue tags to individual fishermen. The Fisheries Office shall reserve an ample number of tags for small boat fishermen. The Fisheries Office may, at its discretion, reserve a portion of the quota and withhold a quantity of tags for future distribution, and deny or limit the issuance of tags to individual fishermen who, based on past performance and present capability, are unlikely to fully utilize them. Any tags un-utilized by August 1 may be redistributed by the Fisheries Office to any big boat or small boat fisherman, taking into account the maximum tag allocations to small boat fishermen, to assure the tags' maximum utilization.