Michigan DNR catches giant lake sturgeon in Lake St. Clair
For more then 150 million years, the species colloquially referred to as “living dinosaurs” have roamed Michigan waters. Today, a healthy population of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) swims in the St. Clair/Detroit River system, living much as they did when dinosaurs walked the Earth.
Every year, Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists and technicians conduct a survey in Lake St. Clair to estimate the number of lake sturgeon found in what some locals call the sixth Great Lake. This year they caught a monster.
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