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Streamside hatcheries are now the lead method for lake sturgeon restoration in the Great Lakes, with 14 facilities operating ...
Lake sturgeon restoration efforts on Michigan’s Big Manistee River near Tippy Dam are a success, but tensions rise with ...
Michigan's shortest fishing season was back in 2025, but only for 17 minutes. The 2025 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black ...
Proceeds from a new beer from Saugatuck Brewing Co. will support awareness and conservation of lake sturgeon. The brewery partnered with the Department of Natural Resources for the Lake Street ...
In West Alton, just below the Melvin Price Locks and Dam, volunteers confirmed Monday, April 21, the first spawning activity of 2025 for lake sturgeon. This reintroduction fish tale is thanks to a ...
The famed, historic Lake Michigan auto and passenger ferry that also is the last steamship operating on the Great Lakes will be in Sturgeon Bay for about two weeks starting April 30. The SS Badger ...
Capable of growing up to 8 feet long and weighing 300 pounds, lake sturgeon once thrived in the Missouri River before being driven to the brink of extinction by overfishing and habitat loss in the ...