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Enter your number to get our free mobile app On Thursday, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced what he called a milestone in the restoration of the Genesee River following the collection of a spawning female lake sturgeon in the lower Genesee River for the first time in over 50 years. Dr. Dawn Dittman and the field crew from the U.S. Geological Survey s (USGS) Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Science recently netted the 61-inch, nearly 70-pound female lake sturgeon along the banks of the Genesee River in Monroe County. I am thrilled to report this milestone in the long-term restoration of Lake Sturgeon to the Genesee River, Dittman said. The finding validates scientists expectation that the first spawning would occur when stocked female sturgeons reached 17 or 18 years old.

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