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51ÁÔÆæ School of Freshwater Sciences Fred Binkowski<\/a>, Senior Scientist Emeritus, and his work with the Wisconsin DNR has been cited in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article<\/a> about the next phase of sturgeon rehabilitation. Binkowski’s work with the DNR successfully raising sturgeon in a hatchery has been critical to sturgeon propagation breakthrough for decades. In 2002, the DNR submitted the first sturgeon stocking request for the Milwaukee River. It was filled in 2003 when 64,000 sturgeon larvae produced at 51ÁÔÆæ’s Great Lakes Research Institute were stocked into the river, according to the DNR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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