I Speak for the Fish: How Native Americans are saving lake sturgeon

I Speak for the Fish: How Native Americans are saving lake sturgeon

Source: greatlakesnow

11/18/2024

I Speak for the Fish: How Native Americans are saving lake sturgeon

In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, I thought I’d share the pivotal, but often overlooked, role Tribal communities have played in lake sturgeon restoration efforts in the Great Lakes.

In the early 2000s, when the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Manistee, MI, decided to start a lake sturgeon restoration program, they knew they would require some outside assistance, so they hired two recently graduated fisheries research biologists to help them set it up.

Manistee River

Sturgeon, Lake

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