LANSING – The Great Lakes have over 100 native fish species, and of that number, there is only one native sturgeon species: the lake sturgeon.
Called “Namāēw” in the Menominee language, lake sturgeon were once abundant throughout all the Great Lakes, surviving ice ages, industrialization and centuries of human pressure.
“Lake sturgeons are basically living dinosaurs, 70 million years older than the T. rex,” said Holly Embke, a research fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center…