The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking for tips to find the person who they say left a dead lake sturgeon on a road in Whitehall, Michigan. Damage to the fish’s left gill plate indicates it may have been snagged, which is an illegal fishing method in Michigan. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.
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