This documentary covers the history of fishing on the Great Lakes and explores the dangers, challenges and changes over time of the Great Lakes fishery. The film covers regulations and laws related to overfishing and the frustration and organization that they spurred among Great Lakes fishermen. The film also focuses on Lake Michigan commercial fishing families, such as the Weborgs of Gills Rock (Door County), and their traditions such as the fish boils at the Viking Grill in Ellison Bay. The documentary poses the question - are small family-based commercial fishermen the last of their kind, and will their traditions soon be replaced by businesses?
Produced by Yahara Films, Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Please note: this documentary includes problematic statements about the “first settlers” in the Door County and Lake Michigan areas being Europeans. Today, we recognize that the first people to live on this land were Indigenous nations, and that European “settlement” in fact brought centuries of displacement and violence towards Indigenous people. Please refer to this resource to learn more: www.aaanativearts.com/native-...
14 июл 2022
