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Keeper POV:Releasing Dinosaur Fish Into the Tennessee River

Date Nov 15, 2022
Published in In the Field

For the last 22 years, the Aquarium has worked with partnering organizations to raise and release Lake Sturgeon into the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, from which they had all but disappeared just 50 years ago. Join one of our educators as he lovingly returns the latest in a line of more than 330,000 baby sturgeon to the river during a recent release!

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