Mission

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

The Service's Fishery Program has developed a Vision for the Future to Conserve America's Fisheries by enhancing aquatic species conservation and management, aquatic habitat conservation and management, partnerships and accountability, cooperation with Native Americans, leadership in science and technology, public use, and workforce management.

Within the Great Lakes Basin, the Service works to encourage cooperative conservation, restoration, and management of Great Lakes fishery resources and their habitats. Priorities are to restore and manage interjurisdictional fisheries and aquatic habitats, recover listed or candidate species and to restore depleted fish populations to preclude their listing, combat aquatic invasive species, enhance and build partnerships, provide fish and wildlife technical assistance to Tribes and on Service lands, support public use, fulfill mitigation obligations, provide leadership, and conduct sound fishery science.

Alpena FWCO works toward the Fishery Program's Vision within U. S. waters of Lake Huron, western Lake Erie, and connecting waterways of the St. Marys River and Huron Erie Corridor (St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River) through specific goals that guide office activities.

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