Lake Sturgeon Habitat Restoration Limiting Factors
Status: Ongoing Location: Tributaries to the Green Bay watershed Description: This project will provide the necessary information to determine how to proceed with the restoration and enhancement of lake sturgeon spawning habitat in the Green Bay watershed. Spawning habitat, both currently available and potentially available above existing barriers, will be assessed, described, and mapped for Green Bay tributaries that historically supported lake sturgeon populations. This information will be essential for the future planning and implementation of sturgeon spawning habitat restoration or enhancement. Benefits: Lake sturgeon in Green Bay are limited by the available spawning habitat. To focus restoration and enhancement efforts on the tributaries with greatest potential for success requires information on the quantity and quality of habitat currently available and potentially available above existing barriers. Providing passage above existing barriers, through fish passage or barrier removal, or enhancing habitat currently available will be expensive, and this project will provide the information to focus restoration or enhancement efforts on the most productive areas. Restoration Goal(s):January-June 2003: Begin siting and design of enhancement project
June 2003-December 2006: Initiate and complete project Project Contact:
Mark E. Holey
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Last Revised: Tuesday March 01 2005
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