Healing Waters | Return of the Sturgeon | Release in Sweden supported by the Wildlife Comeback Fund 

The Atlantic sturgeon, a keystone species, was driven to functional extinction in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. A 42,000-euro grant from Rewilding Europe’s European Wildlife Comeback Fund has supported the first-ever reintroduction of Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) in Sweden.
The “Return of the Sturgeon” initiative, which is managed by the Swedish Anglers Association (Sportfiskarna), aims to re-establish the species in the Göta River - the largest river in Sweden. A total of 100 juvenile sturgeon were translocated from a breeding facility in the village of Born auf dem Darß, on Germany’s Baltic sea coast, which is operated by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries in Rostock.
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Film by: Jon A. Juarez