Community Prepares to Release White Sturgeon Into Nechako River in Vanderhoof

Community prepares to release white sturgeon into Nechako River in Vanderhoof

In total 63 juvenile sturgeon will be released into the river at the event.

How are science and tradition saving sturgeon?

When the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Manistee, MI, decided to start a lake sturgeon restoration program, they started by hiring two recently graduated fisheries research biologists to help them set it up. “I remember getting there and realizing that the scientific knowledge that I had was only a piece,” fisheries biologist Marty Holtgren said. Read Now at Great Lakes Now.