Lac Manitoba (Lake Manitoba) is the 14th largest lake in Canada and the 31st largest in the world, sprawling across 4,624 square kilometres of Manitoba's interior, roughly 75 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Known in Cree as manitou-wapow and in Ojibwa as manidoobaa — both meaning "straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit" — the lake holds deep cultural and historical significance for the Assiniboine and Cree peoples who have long inhabited its shores. A defining geographic feature of the lake is The Narrows, a constriction near the centre of the lake that gives the water body its spiritual name. Lake Manitoba is one of the three principal lakes driving Manitoba's $30-million annual commercial fishing industry, making it not only a historically important waterway but a productive and dynamic fishery for both commercial and recreational anglers.