The Toledo Zoo’s Sturgeon Fest has been put on since 2018, and it gets the Toledo community involved in sturgeon conservation efforts in Lake Erie. It is being featured on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, a popular docuseries that airs nationally.
The host of the television show, Peter Gros, said that the Sturgeon Fest is very unique. He said that the accomplishments and efforts being made to conserve sturgeon match the show’s theme, connecting conservation with community.
“You think this is a pretty large, bottom-feeding, prehistoric fish until you see one up close, you don’t really connect that much,” Gros said. “These are wildlife that can’t be seen, [therefore] it’s hard to connect with and this have a concern for them.”…