The Club contributes annually to various clubs and associations for fish studies, net pen projects, fish cleaning stations, fish stocking and other programs to enhance our fisheries. The Detroit Area Steelheaders is a non-profit fishing club dedicated to the protection and promotion of trout, salmon, and other fisheries in the Great Lakes Region. The Club and its members hold regular meetings and host speakers on various subjects including how-to presentations and seminars. In it's 10th year of operation LACA is best known for it's Net Pen Project, raising and releasing over 200,000 chinooks annually into the Sable River, a tributary of Lake Michigan . Club also focuses on angler education and teaching children how to fish, they run seminars at many outdoor shows.
Members are active at hatcheries, they help with net pen projects and stream stocking.
Charter Boat Assoc. The organization has worked with the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce to publicize the potential of this fishery. The result of this effort has been to increase the popularity of the Michigan shore of Lake Erie as a prime Walleye fishery. WBCA has been involved directly and indirectly in several Walleye tournaments, either for their members or for the angling public in general, along the western shore of Lake Erie. The Association schedules members only Club Tournaments as well as Public Tournaments throughout the year in both warm water and cold water sportfishing seasons he Michigan Anglers Association is actively involved in Fisheries issues, land use and public access issues and Children's Trout Ponds.