Sturgeons coming back in Lake Erie?

According to an article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on July, 19th, it seems that the Lake sturgeon might prepare its comeback. In just one day fishers in the Lake Erie basin caught 2 beauties after they vanished from any fishing nets and rods for the last 2-3 years. That is “notable” indeed, as Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Chuck Murray put it.

“Let’s put it this way, I’ve never brought one onto our boats since I’ve been with the commission, and that’s 17 years.”

It would be plain great if all of the indigenious ‘US sturgeon’ species, like the Atlantic sturgeon, the Short-nosed sturgeon and the Lake sturgeon – after being virtually wiped out within 20 years – would find their old habitat just that again: habitable.

Lets keep fingers crossed – and those waters clean!