Lake sturgeon release is a win-win event as recovery efforts continue in Michigan

Excited, kids and their parents lined up along the edge of the parking lot of the Caldwell Boat Launch on the Tittabawassee River at Midland, Mich., ready to liberate baby lake sturgeon.
Many dozen strong, they’d listened to Justin Chiotti of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service present a primer on the sturgeon, a long abused and neglected Michigan native species for which a recovery effort has been mounted, including the imminent release. The specially designed hatchery truck contained about 500 young sturgeon, bound for the Tittabawassee, Shiawassee, Cass, and Flint rivers, tributaries of the Saginaw River, which flows into Saginaw Bay.

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