Prairie Sportsman
St. Croix Sturgeon and Aquatic Plant Restoration
Preview: Season 17 Episode 6 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Joins anglers on the St. Croix River to fish for sturgeon and Minnesota aquatic invasive species.
Host Bret Amundson joins anglers on the St. Croix River to fish for sturgeon, one of the oldest fish species in existence, and the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center pioneers new methods of restoring native aquatic plants in the state’s lakes.
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Production sponsorship is provided by funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund and Shalom Hill Farm. Additional funding provided by Big Stone County, Yellow Medicine County, Lac qui...
Prairie Sportsman
St. Croix Sturgeon and Aquatic Plant Restoration
Preview: Season 17 Episode 6 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Host Bret Amundson joins anglers on the St. Croix River to fish for sturgeon, one of the oldest fish species in existence, and the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center pioneers new methods of restoring native aquatic plants in the state’s lakes.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Bret] Coming up on an all new "Prairie Sportsman", we host some anglers from north of the border to go ice fishing for sturgeon on the St.
Croix.
- Welcome to Minnesota.
- Well, thank you.
- [Bret] Can you understand his accent?
- I can get most of his words.
- [Bret] I was talking to Darren - [Bret] Then we learn about work being done to restore native aquatic plants in Minnesota's Lakes.
- Our underwater forests are just the bedrock of our lake systems.
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Clip: S17 Ep6 | 10m 27s | The Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center methods of restoring native aquatic plants. (10m 27s)
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Clip: S17 Ep6 | 14m 48s | Fisherman from north of the border fish for their first American Sturgeon on the St. Croix River. (14m 48s)
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