Two Michigan lake sturgeon rehabilitation programs reached significant milestones this fall in the marathon effort to restore the Great Lakes giants.
In Cheboygan County's Black Lake, home to a short annual winter sturgeon fishing season, Michigan State University and the Department of Natural Resources fisheries workers found a female sturgeon that had returned to the connecting Upper Black River to spawn.

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