The Great Lake Sturgeon

Contents

Contents prefaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Sturgeon: The Great Lakes Buffalo | Dave Dempsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Form and Function in Lake Sturgeon | Nancy Auer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 N’me | Jimmie Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Lake Sturgeon as Survivor and Integrative Indicator of Changes in Stressed Aquatic Systems in the Laurentian Basin | Henry A. Regier, Robert M. Hughes, and John E. Gannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Habitat, Foods, and Feeding | Edward A. Baker and Nancy Auer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Recognizing the Genetic Population Structure of Lake Sturgeon Stocks | Amy Welsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Restoration and Renewal: A Sturgeon Tale | Lauri Kay Elbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The St. Lawrence River Lake Sturgeon: Management in Quebec, 1940s–2000s | Pierre Dumont and Yves Mailhot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Bringing Us Back to the River | Marty Holtgren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Sturgeon for Tomorrow | Brenda Archambo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 The Relationship between Lake Sturgeon Life History and Potential Sensitivity to Sea Lamprey Predation | Holly Muir and Trent M. Sutton . . . . . 153 Future Management and Stewardship of Lake Sturgeon | Nancy Auer . . . . . . . 173 about the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 ...