Volunteers
release sturgeon to help restore threatened species
By DAN DAVIDSON - GM Today Staff
October 9, 2008
McKenna
Chay of Cedarburg releases a young sturgeon into the Milwaukee
River on Saturday at Thiensville Village Park. She was just
one of many people who took part in the release of young
sturgeon into the river to boost the threatened species’
population in the river.
THIENSVILLE - Potawatomi spiritual leader Billy Daniels released
a five-inch sturgeon into the Milwaukee River at Thiensville Village
Park on Saturday. It was the first of 767 sturgeon that would be
released into the river that day and followed a chant and drum
ceremony that Daniels and his group of three fellow American Indians
had conducted to help ensure the well being of the fish.
Over the course of the early afternoon, more than 260 people
released months-old lake sturgeon (acipenser fulvescens) into the
river. Each paid $30 for the privilege - and the warm, good feeling
- of having helped restore a threatened species into its once native
habitat.
