Michael Timm
A Fish Story

How the Kletzsch Fishway Was Created

And how it will change the Milwaukee River and its fish.

By - Jan 19th, 2024 10:23 am

And how it will change the Milwaukee River and its fish. Back to the full article.

Aaron Schiller, fisheries biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, points across the Kletzsch Dam in August 2023 toward the excavation of the Kletzsch fishway. It’s a bypass designed to unlock access to critical spawning habitat for fish like northern pike and lake sturgeon, a species once extirpated from the Milwaukee River but now being reintroduced in hopes to reestablish a naturally reproducing population.

Aaron Schiller, fisheries biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, points across the Kletzsch Dam in August 2023 toward the excavation of the Kletzsch fishway. It’s a bypass designed to unlock access to critical spawning habitat for fish like northern pike and lake sturgeon, a species once extirpated from the Milwaukee River but now being reintroduced in hopes to reestablish a naturally reproducing population.
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Aaron Schiller, fisheries biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, points across the Kletzsch Dam in August 2023 toward the excavation of the Kletzsch fishway. It’s a bypass designed to unlock access to critical spawning habitat for fish like northern pike and lake sturgeon, a species once extirpated from the Milwaukee River but now being reintroduced in hopes to reestablish a naturally reproducing population. Photo by Michael Timm.

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