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Black River Hatchery Offers Free Tour to the Public

An opportunity to see how the DNR and Michigan State University is working to bring back the sturgeon population in Michigan is right around the corner.

The Black River Fish Hatchery is offering the public the chance to take a tour where they have about 16-hundred young sturgeon waiting to be released. Each one can live from 50 to 100 years and grow larger than a human, although for these fish it will take about 15 years.

Sturgeon in the black river are highly protected and researchers at the hatchery hope to see them thrive once again. “They’re just an awesome fish,” said Max Majinska. “They’re so ancient. They’re millions of years old and they can get to massive sizes up to 150 pounds, 6 feet long. We see that relatively common, especially in this population.”

The tour is on August 21 and some of the hatchlings will be released afterwards.

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