Experts thrilled after spotting rare fish behavior in US waterway: 'Great milestone'

Experts thrilled after spotting rare fish behavior in US waterway: 'Great milestone'

Sturgeon rehabilitation programs supporting Great Lakes populations of the fish are seeing promising results after 20 years of hard work.  Fisheries workers from Michigan State University and the Department of Natural Resources recently spotted a female sturgeon ready to spawn in the Upper Black River. It bore a tag no longer used to track the fish, indicating it was one of the first hatchery-raised sturgeon stocked in the system, according to T…