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| | US Fish and Wildlife Service - Alpena FRO - 1995-97 Lake Huron Lake Sturgeon Report |
 | | Lake sturgeon are benthivores, feeding primarily on small benthic invertebrates such as insect larvae, especially Chironomids, nymphs of Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, and Neuroptera, crayfish, mollusks, fish eggs, fishes, nematodes, leeches, amphipods, decapods, and a few plants (Harkness and Dymond 1961). |
 | | Lake Huron is the second largest (by surface area) of the Great Lakes with a total surface area of 59,596 km2 and a total volume of 3,540 km3. |
 | | Lake sturgeon 161 and 49 were at large just over a year (16 and 14 months, respectively) prior to recapture; all other sturgeon were at large less than one year prior to recapture. |
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