Bay Port Fishing District

Bay Port Fishing District is a Michigan historical marker in Bay Port, Huron County, dedicated 1986.

Huron County · dedicated 1986 · Lakeside Drive, Bay Port

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The Gillingham Fish Company was established in 1886; the Bay Port Fish Company, in 1895. At their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, they shipped tons of perch, walleye, herring, whitefish and carp to New York and Chicago in refrigerated railroad cars. Once known as one of the largest freshwater commercial fishing ports in the world, Bay Port retains a commercial fishery that operates much as it did in the past. Bay Port also offers sport fishing, water skiing, ice fishing and hunting.

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Bay Port Fishing District

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