Sturgeon

Conservation partners will be releasing a hundred young lake sturgeon into the Saginaw Bay. The event marks a milestone for restoration efforts in the bay.

These threatened fish only have one priority right now: to find where they hatched in the Black River and create the next generation. But on their mission, these gigantic fish are vulnerable to poaching.

Hundreds of lake sturgeon will be traveling upstream at the end of this month to spawn. The state and local partners are seeking volunteers to stand guard as the fish make their journey in Cheboygan County to prevent poaching.

It was a slow start, and then a quick end this weekend, to Michigan’s shortest fishing season. The lake sturgeon is a prehistoric fish that lives a protected life in Black Lake, but once a year, anglers vie to be one of the few to land a giant.