Photo: Rewilding Europe
A 42,000-euro (about $46,000) grant from Rewilding Europe’s European Wildlife Comeback Fund has supported the first-ever reintroduction of Atlantic sturgeon in Sweden. The “Return of the Sturgeon” initiative, which is managed by the Swedish Anglers Association, 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. The fish, which at 10 months old are around 60 cm in length (nearly 24 inches) and 1kg (about 2.20 pounds) in weight, have now been released into the river near Bohus Fortress, in the city of Kungälv. “This is a unique and incredibly exciting event,” says project leader Linnéa Jägrud, who is overseeing the Return of the Sturgeon initiative as a limnologist working for the Swedish Anglers Association. “The reintroduction of a regionally extinct species is very uncommon in Sweden. I’m looking forward to the day when we can look at the river and say ‘there are Atlantic sturgeon spawning below the surface here’.”
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