Fishing Michigan

This was forwarded to me by one of the paper’s staff members who thought it might be of interest.  It should be for anyone who has questions about the status of the Detroit River and Lake Erie.  It looks as if the information is a part of a study actually conducted on the whole Great Lakes ecosystem, and since this area’s location is close to the river and our side of the lake, they narrowed it down.

The presentation, ” Coming Home “ will be given by Dr. John Hartig this Thursday at the community college’s theatre in the La-Z-Boy Center.  In the announcement on Monroe Talks  it mentions sturgeon, bald eagles, mayflies, walleyes and falcons.

You know what happens when you assume things, but I would be interested in the return of sturgeon to the river.  When my grandmother (dad’s mom) was alive she showed me pictures of sturgeon stacked like cord wood on the river’s edge,  men stood around while other’s set them on fire like funeral pyres.

Also, to see if he mentions anything about the return of the spawning whitefish to the river.  It is said, that whitefish are one of nature’s indicators that the river is really cleaning up compared to what it was during the city’s industrial heyday.  Dad’s family was from Ecorse,  and it was said you knew what was being produced back then by the color of the Ecorse and Rouge  flowing out to the Detroit River.

Overall, the presentation is free, and takes place at 7 pm  this Thursday.