A baby sturgeon named Washago toured Detroit schools. Now it’s going home

DETROIT – How do you move a dinosaur fish across Metro Detroit, into classrooms and into a TV station? With a cooler, as it turns out.

Washago, a lake sturgeon raised through a Huron-Clinton Metroparks and Sturgeon for Tomorrow educational program, has been visiting Metro Detroit classrooms to teach students about conservation and Michigan’s threatened native species.

He visited nine different schools in May alone…

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