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Tagging Lake Sturgeon

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Research Ecologist Dawn Dittman prepares a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag to insert into a recently hatched lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) so the fish can be tracked after release into the Genesee River, NY.

The photograph was taken at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Oneida Hatchery located in the Village of Constantia, NY on October 5, 2016: Photo Credit: Mark Chalupnicki, USGS.

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