Editing Lake Erie (section)

====Sport fishing====
The lake supports a strong sport fishery. While commercial fishing declined, sport fishing has remained. The deep cool waters that spawn the best fishing is in the Canadian side of the lake.<ref name="twsX413a">{{cite news |author=Hall |first=Mimi |date=March 27, 2008 |title=Going fishing? Pack your passport |newspaper=USA TODAY |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-03-26-fishing_N.htm |access-date=January 24, 2011 |quote=That's because half of Lake Erie – as it happens, the half with the deeper and cooler waters that often spawn the best fishing – is in Canada. |archive-date=November 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104124707/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-03-26-fishing_N.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> As a result, a fishing boat that crosses the international border triggers the security concerns of border crossings, and fishermen are advised to carry their passport.<ref name=twsX413a/> If their boat crosses the invisible border line in the lake, upon returning to the American shore, passengers need to report to a local border protection office.<ref name=twsX413a/>

In 2008, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission tried stocking the lake with [[brown trout]] in an effort to build what's called a ''put-grow-and-take'' fishery.<ref name="twsJanY115">{{cite news
 |author       = Deborah Weisberg
 |title        = Looking ahead to 2009 (and '10): New plan to stock trout in Erie steelhead streams
 |newspaper    = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 |date         = December 28, 2008
 |url          = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08363/938086-358.stm
 |access-date  = January 25, 2010
 |archive-date = November 24, 2011
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111124074306/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08363/938086-358.stm
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> There was a report that charter boat fishing increased substantially on the American side, from 46 to 638 charter boats in operation in Ohio alone, during a period from 1975 to 1985 as pollution levels declined and after populations of walleye increased substantially in the lake.<ref name="twsJanY211" /> In 1984, Ohio sold 27,000 nonresident fishing permits, and sport fishing was described as big business.<ref name="twsJanY211" /> In 1992, there were accounts of fishermen regularly catching walleye weighing up to {{convert|12|lb|abbr=}}.<ref name="twsJanY212">{{cite news |author=Husar |first=John |date=December 6, 1992 |title=Feeding Frenzy: Lake Erie Is Awash In Hungry Walleye |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/12/06/feeding-frenzy-lake-erie-is-awash-in-hungry-walleye/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204134920/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-12-06/sports/9204210276_1_lake-erie-big-fish-charter-captain |archive-date=December 4, 2011}}</ref> It is possible to fish off piers in winter for [[burbot]]; the burbot make a midwinter spawning run and is reportedly one of Erie's glacial relics.<ref name="twsZ14" />