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Commercial fisher Donny Livingston, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, picks cisco from gillnets after lifting them from Lake Superior onto the fish tug Ava June during a fishing run near the Apostle Islands in November. Ojibwe tribes retain a treaty-guaranteed right to fish within portions of three Great Lakes and millions of acres of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but climate change threatens many species and contaminants long released into the Great Lakes threaten the health of people who eat them, disproportionately harming tribal citizens.

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