Saving Our Sturgeon: Protecting Wisconsin's Ancient Fish

The story of a fascinating fish and the forward-thinking people who saved them in Wisconsin 

For millennia, sturgeon swam the waterways of Wisconsin. Before the 1800s, an estimated eleven million sturgeon lived in Lake Michigan alone. Menominee and Ojibwe people depended on the fish for food and harvested them sustainably. But in the early 1900s, the lake sturgeon was near extinction. Saving Our Sturgeon tells the remarkable story of lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, the conservation efforts to save the species, and what is being done to keep the population healthy and thriving today.

Grade Level: 6-9

Age: 11 - 14 years old

Author:  Rebecca Hogue Wojahn