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Wisconsin's commercial fishing industry typically utilizes three types of gear on Lake Michigan: gill net, entrapping nets and trawler. This report focuses on the commercial trawling industry and utilizes the harvest information submitted by the commercial fisherman for rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax, bloater chub Coregonus hoyi and alewife Alosa pseudohargus. Trawl harvest information was obtained from the mandatory biweekly catch forms submitted by commercial license holders during the statutory season. This report examines reported harvest data two ways, on a calendar year and licenses year basis. Calendar year harvest is reported for historical comparison and license year harvest is presented to examine quota harvest since new rule changes were established in license year 1992. Unsorted catch harvest, as defined in this report, includes incidentally caught fish which were landed and not discarded offshore as dead scrap or reported as processed bloater chub. Incidental (unsorted) catch is mostly bloater chub but also includes other species not limited to alewife and unmarketable smelt.