St Martins Bay restricted commercial fishing zone

The portion of Lake Huron within one (1) mile from shore and delineated by the following landmarks: St. Martin's Bay zone - from Rabbit Back Point north and east to Brulee Point. Regulations: The waters described above, shall be the Sault Tribe Tribal zone only during the salmon seasons. At all other times, these waters shall be part of the Northern Lake Huron Inter-Tribal Fishing Zone. Bay Mills fishers shall not fish in the portion of this zone described above. Fishing for salmon by the Tribal commercial fishers is limited to the Sault Tribe Tribal Zone described above. Salmon fishing shall be permitted from August 1 through October 15 in the St. Martin's Bay zone. Nets may be fished at the surface at any time during the specified salmon seasons in the areas described above. Outside the specified salmon season, commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited except for incidental harvest. The Tribes shall prohibit the retention of more than two hundred (200) pounds round weight per vessel per day of salmon caught as incidental catch in gill nets in waters and seasons not open to salmon fishing, and shall prohibit any retention of salmon caught in trap nets. Maps for general reference only: refer to text of Consent Decree 2000 for exact locations and provisions. Created a new polyline shapefile in ArcGIS 8.1. Copied selected features (as outlined in the Consent Decree 2000 documentation) of the US Department of Commerce (Bureau of the Census, Geography Division) county census (1995) layer into new shapefile. A one mile buffer was then generated from the polyline shapefile using the buffer wizard tool in Arc Map. Created a new polygon shapefile in ArcGIS 8.1. Copied selected features (as outlined in the Consent Decree 2000 documentation) of the US Department of Commerce (Bureau of the Census, Geography Division) county census (1995) layer into new shapefile. The new polygon feature was then commbined with the one mile buffer created earlier. The desired features were then selected and exported as a new shapefile. Created a new polygon shapefile in ArcGIS 8.1. The new pollygon layer was created using the snapping tool in ArcMap. Snapping to an adjacent layer and heading in a clockwise direction extending the polygon boundaries beyond the US Department of Commerce (Bureau of the Census, Geography Division) county census (1995) layer to encorporate the target area outlined in the Consent Decree 2000 documentation. The new polygon feature was then clipped to the exported polgon created earlier. A point was located on the USGS Mackinac county 1:24,000 DRG as outlined in the Consent Decree 2000 documentation. A one mile buffer was then generated from the point shapefile using the buffer wizard tool in Arc Map. The new buffer was then commbined with the copied polygon generated from the US Department of Commerce (Bureau of the Census, Geography Division) county census (1995) layer using the union tool from the geoprocessing wizard in Arc Map. The desired features were then selected and exported as a new shapefile. The new polygon feature was commbined with the clipped polygon using the union tool from the geoprocessing wizard inArcMap. The desired features were then selected and exported as a new shapefile. Created a new polygon shapefile in ArcGIS 8.1. Snapped to the exported polygon layer created above to smooth out intersection. The desired features were then selected, merged as new layer in ArcMap, exported as a new shapefile, and reprojected from Michigan georef to Decimal Degrees to create the final St. Martin's Bay Zone layer. The boundaries represented on consent decree maps are approximations based on the text contained in the 2000 Consent Decree. For legal descriptions of geographic extent or details pertaining to regulations for these representations refer to the original 2000 Consent Decree Document.