How do you keep an industry alive when even those who carry it in their blood aren't making a true living at it? That’s a question the Fishtown Preservation Society has been trying to answer for the past several years, as commercial fishing in Leland – and throughout the Great Lakes – has floundered.

But could an in-the-works apprenticeship program help inject some new energy and innovation?

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