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By Robert Kennedy
Feb 19, 2021 4:28 AM
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Some in the sturgeon community are concerned about its future, as the DNR’s top biologist faces criminal charges.
Ryan Koenigs is one of four people charged in a caviar processing investigation.
“I know every fishing club president and everybody around the lake,” said Otter Street Fishing Club vice president Don Herman. “It’s giving everyone a bad taste.”
If you take a look around Lake Winnebago during sturgeon spearing season, you’d think it’s more of a family than a group of spearers. And it’s a family Koenigs has been very much a part of for decades, according to Sturgeon for Tomorrow, a non-profit organization dedicated to the future of sturgeon.
Ryan Koenigs faces one count of obstructing a conservation warden, which is a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines.