Improved water quality on the lower Menominee River has led to its removal from a pollution clean-up list by the Environmental Protection Agency. The area was targeted for federal clean-up work and funding in the 1980s when the river was considered threatened.  Clean-up work included dredging and a fish elevator to help sturgeon make their way up the river.  The remediation project cost around $178-million which was paid for through private, state and federal funding. Charlie Henriksen, the owner of Henriksen Fisheries in Sister Bay, says clean up efforts on the Menominee River and the Fox River have improved fish stocks on Green Bay.

Henriksen says among his concerns is the impact on Green Bay from the planned Back Forty mine in Menominee County, Michigan.

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