Whitefish Point

The wide waters of Lake Huron are home to lake whitefish, a cold-water fish long valued by the peoples of the Great Lakes. Indigenous fishing in the lakes reaches back thousands of years, and the catch sustained communities around their shores. Seventeenth-century accounts also describe fishers setting stone-weighted nets under the ice in Lake Huron to catch lake trout. Here the main basin spreads between the Michigan shore and the Saugeen Peninsula, before narrowing south towards the St Clair River.