Sturgeon rehabilitation programs supporting Great Lakes populations of the fish are seeing promising results after 20 years of hard work.
Fisheries workers from Michigan State University and the Department of Natural Resources recently spotted a female sturgeon ready to spawn in the Upper Black River. It bore a tag no longer used to track the fish, indicating it was one of the first hatchery-raised sturgeon stocked in the system, according to The Detroit News.
Scott Colborne, an assistant fisheries and wildlife professor at MSU and head of some of the school’s efforts at Black Lake, told the publication it was a “great milestone.”…