🔗: https://mlive.visitlink.me/pVGm1n Michigan's 2026 Black Lake sturgeon season lasted just 48 minutes on Saturday due to a strict season limit of six fish. Jared Guelig speared the largest catch of the day, this 79.4-pound, 67.2-inch sturgeon. Native lake sturgeon are prehistoric fish that evolved more than 100 million years ago, widely considered living fossils of the dinosaur age. They can grow up to seven feet long and weigh more than 300 pounds, living 100 years or more in the Great Lakes

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Recently, scientists at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute received a delivery we look forward to every summer: hundreds — and HUNDREDS — of juvenile Lake Sturgeon! For more than 20 years, we have worked alongside numerous partners to bring this living fossil and modern day river giant back to the Tennessee River. To date, human-led propagation has seen more than 300,000 sturgeon returned to the river, which they had all but disappeared from by the 1970s. When they join their fellows

Lake sturgeon migrate to their spawning habitat mid-May through June. They spawn in riffles, shallow sections of rivers with fast, tumbling water. The river current washes the gravel stream bottom free of silt and provides oxygen for the eggs. In order to naturally reproduce, sturgeon need a way to reach these quality spawning areas. In 1999, the Minnesota DNR began reconnecting rivers by removing dams and replacing them with natural “rock arch rapids.” Dam modifications create and provide acces