Lake Sturgeon Coordinator:  Andrew Briggs

E-mail: briggsA4@michigan.gov
Phone: (586) 612-9228

Office Information:
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Lake St. Clair Fisheries Research Station
33135 South River Road
Harrison Township, MI 48045

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• Trends from 21 Years of Lake Sturgeon Assessments in the St. Clair System (pdf)

• 20 Years of Lake Sturgeon Assessment: Lessons Learned (pdf, 5.35 Mb)

• 2002 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Activities (pdf)

• 2001 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Activities (pdf)

• 2000 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Activities (pdf)

• 1999 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Activities (pdf)
  
  
• 1997-1998 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Activities (pdf)
  
  
• 2000 St. Clair Lake Sturgeon Study Performance Report
  
  
• Lake St. Clair/St. Clair R. Federal Aid Study

• Mark-recapture validation of pectoral fin ray age estimation for Lake Sturgeon.  Hessenauer, J.-M., B. E. Utrup, A. S. Briggs, T. C. Wills, and M. V. Thomas.  2018.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 38:1251-1257

• Retention of loop, monel, and passive integrated transponder tags by wild, free-ranging Lake Sturgeon.  Briggs, A. S., J. C. Boase, J. A. Chiotti, J.-M. Hessenauer, and T. C. Wills.  2019.  Journal of Applied Ichthyology 35:629-635.

Lake Sturgeon Research / Activities

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• Assigning Sex and Reproductive Stage to Adult Lake Sturgeon using Ultrasonography and Common Morphological Measurements. Chiotti, J.A., J.C. Boase, D.W. Hondorp, and A.S. Briggs.  2016.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

• Electronic archival tags provide first glimpse of bathythermal habitat use by free-ranging adult lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens.  Briggs, A.S., D.W. Hondorp, H.R. Quinlan, J.C. Boase, and L.C. Mohr.  2016.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology.

• Movements and distribution of adult lake sturgeon from their spawning site in the St. Clair River, Michigan (abstract) - J. Boase, J. Diana, M. Thomas, J. Chiotti. 2011. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 27 (Suppl.2):58-65

• First record of Polypodium hydriforme (Cnidaria) from lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque) in the St. Clair River, Michigan (abstract). Thomas, M.V. and P.M. Muzzall. 2009. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25 (Suppl. 2): 107-108

• Abundance, age structure, and spatial distribution of lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens in the St. Clair River System. Thomas, M.V. and R.C. Hass. 2004. Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Fisheries Division Research Report (pdf, 1.10 Mb)

• 2006 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Poster - Does hook size matter?: Evaluation of two hook sizes for survey setlines in the St. Clair River

• 2004 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Poster - Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Tributary Database and Geographic Information System Demonstration

• 2002 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Proceedings download (pdf, 2.04 Mb)

Lake Sturgeon Research / Activities

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• 2006 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Presentation - Lake Sturgeon Restoration Using Streamside Rearing Facilities on Four Lake Michigan Tributaries

• 2006 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Poster -Characteristics of spawning lake sturgeon in the Black River, 2001-06

• 2004 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Presentation -Overview of the Lake Michigan lake sturgeon rehabilitation plan conservation genetics and rehabilitation stocking section

• 2004 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting Poster - Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Tributary Database and Geographic Information System Demonstration

Lake Sturgeon Coordinator:  Tim Cwalinski

E-mail: cwalinskit@michigan.gov
Phone: (989) 732-3541 Ext. 5072

Office Information:
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Northern Lake Huron Management Unit
1732 M-32 West
Gaylord, MI 49735

Lake Sturgeon Research / Activities

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Lake Sturgeon Coordinator:  Dave Caroffino

E-mail: caroffinod@michigan.gov
Phone: (231) 547-2914 Ext. 232

Office Information:
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Charlevoix Research Station
96 Grant Street
Charlevoix, MI 49720

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• Abundance and movement patterns of age-0 juvenile lake sturgeon in the Peshtigo River, Wisconsin (abstract). Caroffino, D.C., T.M. Sutton, and M.S. Lindberg. 2009. Environmental Biology of Fishes 2009 - please contact D. Caroffino for full document

• Genetic guidelines for stocking of lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes basin. Welsh, A.B., R.F. Elliott, K.T. Scribner, H.R. Quinlan, E.A. Baker, B.T. Eggold, J.M. Holtgren, C.C. Krueger, and B. May. 2010.

• Bringing us back to the river. J.M. Holtgren. Pages 133-146 in N. Auer and D. Dempsey, editors. The Great Lake Sturgeon. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing. 2013.

• Lake sturgeon spawning habitat in the Big Manistee River, Michigan, USA. Chiotti, J.A., J.M. Holtgren, N.A. Auer, and S.A. Ogren. 2008. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:1009-1019.

Lake Sturgeon Research / Activities

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• Michigan's Lake Sturgeon Rehabilitation Strategy
  
  
• Predation on early life stages of lake sturgeon in the Peshtigo River, Wisconsin (abstract). Caroffino, D.C., T.M. Sutton, R.F. Elliott, and M.D. Donofrio. 2010. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:1846-1856 - please contact D. Caroffino for full document
  
  
• Early life stage mortality rates of lake sturgeon in the Peshtigo River, Wisconsin (abstract). Caroffino, D.C., T.M. Sutton, R.F. Elliott, and M.D. Donofrio. 2010. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 30:295–304 - please contact D. Caroffino for full document

• Assessment of the vertical distribution of larval lake sturgeon drift in the Peshtigo River, Wisconsin, USA (abstract). Caroffino, D.C., T.M. Sutton, and D.J. Daugherty. 2009. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25 (Suppl. 2):14-17- please contact D. Caroffino for full document

• Comparing size, movment and habitat selection of wild and streamside-reared lake sturgeon. Mann, K.A., J.M. Holtgren, N.A. Auer, and S. Ogren. 2011. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31:305-314.

• Design of a portable streamside rearing facility for lake sturgeon. Holtgren, J.M., S.A. Ogren, A.J. Paquet, and S. Fajfer. 2007. North American Journal of Aquaculture 69:317-323.

• Movement and habitat of juvenile lake sturgeon in the Sturgeon River/Portage Lake system, Michigan. Holtgren, J.M., and N.A. Auer. 2004. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 19:419-432.