Tag: conservation

TN Aquarium welcomes 2,000+ baby Lake Sturgeon as restoration effort turns 25

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Every year for more than two decades, the approach of summer has coincided with the arrival of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of juvenile Lake Sturgeon to the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute. Last week, biologists at the Aquarium’s freshwater field station welcomed 2,500 of these wriggling, two-inch babies into their care.   As with …

Continue reading