Set for this month at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven is a presentation on a major effort to restore lake sturgeon to the Big Manistee River.

Museum Education Director Ashley Deming tells us they’ll welcome Corey Jerome, a fisheries biologist with the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Natural Resources Department. He’ll talk about the 20-year program to bring back the fish, which once thrived in the watershed.

“ It’s a really unique program and a way of introducing these young sturgeon and rearing them in the local waters,” Deming said. “ So, paying a lot of attention to fish biology and how the sturgeon spawn and return to spawning grounds and that kind of thing to have success.

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