Illegal sturgeon fishing target of new awareness campaign 
CA Source: CBC News 6/4/2016
Illegal sturgeon fishing target of new awareness campaign
Police and fishermen are cracking down on illegal sturgeon fishing in Ontario by launching a new awareness campaign on the weekend.

Crime Stoppers in both Canada and the U.S. have teamed up with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission for the campaign that aims to make people aware that killing and selling wildlife is illegal.
 

The campaign is good news to people like Trevor Pitcher, an associate professor of biology at the University of Windsor who has studied the successful return of sturgeon in the Detroit River.

The fish nearly disappeared about 10 years ago when decades of dredging ruined natural spawning beds.

"Sturgeon existed in fairly reasonable numbers, but no offspring were produced for the next generation because they had nowhere to spawn," Pitcher told CBC's Windsor Morning.

But, artificial reefs were dropped into the river, which created new spawning waterbeds. The fish are now thriving.

"With the right habitat, they can do quite well," Pitcher said.

 
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