Sturgeon Release In the Great Lakes Bay Region

Local, state, and federal partners are inviting the public to a lake sturgeon release celebration Friday in the Saginaw Bay Watershed.

Releases will reintroduce more than 100 hatchery-raised sturgeon into each tributary of the watershed. Short presentations will be made at the events by local partners. The public release events will take place at the Bob G. Caldwell Municipal Boat Launch in Midland on the Tittabawassee River at 11:00 A.M., at Cole Park in Chesaning on the Shiawassee River at noon, on the Flint River at the Mott recreation Area in Flint at 1:00 and the last one at 2:00 in Frankenmuth at the Gunzenhausen Walkway on the Cass River.