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Red Lake Nation tribal leaders in northern Minnesota say they are going to the U.S. Department of Interior with a longstanding grievance over boundary lines in an attempt to bring all of Upper Red Lake under their control. It's far too early to tell if the strongly independent reservation can succeed in expanding its borders to include the eastern four-tenths of Upper Red Lake, where hundreds of thousands of state-licensed anglers fish for walleyes. But any sustained campaign by the Red Lake...
State and tribal fisheries managers will cut the walleye harvest on Red Lake next year by 20% to adjust to a reduction in spawners and to maintain a good quantity of the lake's signature fish. The change follows a year in which fishing regulations were loosened to check a walleye surplus. Henry Drewes, DNR regional fisheries manager in Bemidji, said spring/summer regulations will be determined in April after the winter catch is analyzed. "When the fish are there, we loosen the harvest," Drewes...
Minnesota’s resident expert on Red Lake said zebra mussels recently confirmed in the North Woods walleye fishery will face a couple of unique growth obstacles and won’t destroy the lake’s trademark hue. The invasive mollusks are expected to spread and attach en masse to offshore rocks and other substrate, but the coming and going of bottom-scraping ice could keep the mussels out of critical walleye spawning grounds near shore, said Tony Kennedy, the large lake specialist in Bemidji for the Department of Natural Resources. Red Lake also is home...
Fishing on Red Lake’s tribal waters has reopened for the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians after council members met with the families of two fishermen who apparently drowned in early November. Red Lake Nation News is reporting the special council meeting action this week, saying it breaks with a tradition that no fishing on the lake would take place until lost fishermen were found or recovered. But after two months of unsuccessful searching, it was decided that more people out on the lake as anglers could raise the prospects of finding t...
A sharp drop in state inspections of slot machines and blackjack tables at Minnesota's 18 Indian casinos has prompted internal reforms that will include a buildup of technology skills, a top regulator told lawmakers Wednesday. Michele Tuchner, the new director of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement in the Department of Public Safety, readily admitted to inspection failures at her agency. In 2011, she said, there were zero game inspections and no financial audit reviews. "They [inspections] have declined. They have simply declined,'' Tuchner told...
State public safety officials will be called before the Legislature to explain why slot machines and blackjack games at Minnesota's Indian casinos have operated with little to no state inspections in the past four years, lawmakers announced Wednesday. "State regulatory employees are refusing to even visit some of the casinos, much less test a slot machine or monitor a blackjack table," said Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, who has been quietly monitoring the issue. In a separate development, Gov. Mark Dayton met Monday in his office with...
Slot machines and blackjack tables at Minnesota's Indian casinos have been operating with little to no state scrutiny since at least 2008, records show, including zero slot machine inspections at Mystic Lake Casino in Shakopee, by far the state's biggest gambling house. Slots at Grand Casino Hinckley and Grand Casino Mille Lacs have gone four years without inspections, which are supposed to guarantee compliance with state-mandated payout ratios. And there were no blackjack inspections at any of...
