Governor looks forward to promoting Lake City and state’s multi-billion dollar outdoors industry
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he’s excited to highlight Lake City and Minnesota’s outdoors industry at this year’s Governor’s Fishing Opener, scheduled for May 9-11.
The annual event brings media from across the region for a guided fishing outing and other events to promote Minnesota’s tourism and outdoors industry, especially fishing.
“The fishing and the outdoors is part of our heritage, it’s also $4.4 billion worth of revenue,” Walz said, supporting tens of thousands of jobs.
“It’s a big part of our economy,” he said.
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