The Ohio Division of Wildlife said it stocked 130,000 sauger in the Maumee and Sandusky rivers as part of a pilot project to restore the population. Officials explained sauger were once abundant and were an integral part of tributaries, bays and other areas of Lake Erie’s western basin, but the population began to fall apart in the 1950s, mainly due to poor water quality and overfishing. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.