Tag: lake sturgeon
I Speak for the Fish: The hardest lake sturgeon dive in the Great Lakes
For two weeks each year, the St. Clair River hosts thousands of spawning lake sturgeon.
Hundreds of six-foot females plump with eggs and thousands of 4 to 5-foot-long males gather at the base of Lake Huron. In the span of a few weeks, they will arrive, group up, deposit millions of fertilized eggs on the river bottom and depart.
How are science and tradition saving sturgeon?
When the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Manistee, MI, decided to start a lake sturgeon restoration program, they started by hiring two recently graduated fisheries research biologists to help them set it up.
“I remember getting there and realizing that the scientific knowledge that I had was only a piece,” fisheries biologist Marty Holtgren said.
COMMENTARY: Sturgeon vs salmon: Prioritizing native Great Lakes species
The conflict between supporting native lake sturgeon versus non-native salmon is coming to a head on the Big Manistee River in Michigan. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
I Speak for the Fish: Sturgeon vs salmon prioritizing native Great Lakes species
I Speak for the Fish is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor Kathy Johnson, coming out the third Monday of each month. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit Public Television.