In a series of posts on social media, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District announced that 60 tagged sturgeon were reintroduced into the Cuyahoga River.

They thanked their partners U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ohio Division of Wildlife and Cleveland Metroparks.

“The lake sturgeon hasn’t had a sustainable presence in the Cuyahoga River since the late 1800s,” a post reads.

In a separate post, the Ohio Division of Wildlife said the young lake sturgeon have transmitters they can watch to “evaluate movement and survival.”

Those findings will come in handy next year, as the division said annual stocking of 1,500 young lake sturgeon will begin in fall 2025. What they learn from this small batch of tagged fish will help inform where they release the others.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the lake sturgeon is "one of the largest freshwater fish in North America."

"During the late 1800s and early 1900s, commercial harvest severely reduced the abundance of lake sturgeon while the construction of dams reduced the amount and accessibility of spawning and nursery habitat," the website reads. "By the late 1900s, lake sturgeon harvest was, and remains, heavily regulated and monitored, effectively removing the threat of overharvest. While the threat dams pose to the species remains across the range, reducing access to spawning and nursery habitat, there have been significant efforts to restore lake sturgeon including dam removals, fish passages, regulated release of water from dams, habitat restoration and stocking programs."