Editing Lake Erie (section)

====Government regulations====
The lake can be thought of as a common asset with multiple purposes including being a fishery. There was direct competition between commercial fishermen and sport fishermen (including charter boats and sales of fishing licenses) throughout the lake's history, with both sides seeking government assistance from either [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] or [[Ottawa]], and trying to make their case to the [[public opinion|public]] through newspaper reporting.<ref name=twsJanY314>{{cite news
 |title        = A GREAT INDUSTRY IN DANGER; The Fish Supply of Lake Erie Likely to be Exhausted Unless the State of Ohio Takes Action.
 |newspaper    = The New York Times
 |date         = January 31, 1895
 |url          = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20913F8395911738DDDA80B94D9405B8585F0D3
 |access-date  = January 25, 2010
 |archive-date = November 11, 2012
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}}</ref> But other groups have entered the political process as well, including [[environmentalism|environmentalists]], lakefront property owners, industry owners and workers seeking cost-effective solutions for sewage, ferry boat operators, even corporations making electric-generating wind turbines.

Management of the fishery is by consensus of all management agencies with an interest in the resource and work under the mandate of the [[Great Lakes Fishery Commission]]. The commission makes assessments using sophisticated [[mathematical model]]ing systems. The commission has been the focus of considerable recrimination, primarily from angler and charter fishing groups in the U.S. which have had a historical antipathy to commercial fishing interests. This conflict is complex, dating from the 1960s and earlier, with the result in the United States that, in 2011, commercial fishing was mostly eliminated from Great Lakes states. One report suggests that battling between diverse fishing interests began around Lake Michigan and evolved to cover the entire Great Lakes region.<ref>[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/9.1/szylvian.html Szylvian, K.M. 2004.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305053512/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/9.1/szylvian.html |date=March 5, 2009 }} ''Transforming Lake Michigan into the 'World's Greatest Fishing Hole': The Environmental Politics of Michigan's Great Lakes Sport Fishing, 1965–1985.''</ref> The analysis suggests that in the Lake Erie context, the competition between sport and commercial fishing involves universals and that these conflicts are cultural, not scientific, and therefore not resolvable by reference to ecological data.<ref>Berkes, F. 1984. Competition between commercial and sport fishermen: an ecological analysis. Human Ecology 12: 413–429.</ref>