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In the spring of 1989, tensions over Native American off-reservation spearfishing rights reached a boiling point in northern Wisconsin. Anti-spearfishing organizations encouraged the design and deployment of concrete walleye decoys like this one, to be set on the bottom of lake beds to damage Ojibwe spears and disrupt off-reservation spearfishing.Citation
Anti-spearfishing concrete walleye decoy. Wisconsin Historical Museum.