Dr. Ed Baker

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  www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/528094.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/31/2009    Last Visited: 6/1/2009  

  "We're hoping we can stock about 1,500 fish per river," said Ed Baker, fish biologist with the Michigan DNR in Marquette.
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  "We think about half of them will survive," Baker said.
  
  The Cedar and Whitefish rivers in the U.P. had sturgeon populations before European settlers arrived. The DNR surveyed both rivers and found no remaining sturgeon populations.
  
  "The habitat is still in good shape," according to Baker.
  
  Each river has one barrier - a dam on the Cedar and a lamprey barrier on the Whitefish.
  
  Baker said it's not inaccurate to say the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem is not what it used to be, but this project is one step in the right direction.
  
  "There have been tremendous changes to the fish community and ecology of the Great Lakes. By reintroducing native species we're trying to restore some of that eco health," Baker said.
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  Collecting spawning sturgeon on the much deeper, darker Lower Menominee would have been much more difficult, Baker said.
  
  Male sturgeon reach sexual maturity at about age 15, while females don't begin reproducing until they're about 20 years old.
  
  Future generations are bound to experience naturally reproducing sturgeon populations on the Cedar and West Branch Whitefish rivers.
  
  "People have referred to sturgeon as the bald eagle of the Great Lakes," Baker said. "They're equally important to the ecosystem as bald eagles and the gray wolf."

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  www.scottchurchdirect.com/ted.aspx?D=117&Pg=1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2006    Last Visited: 9/8/2008  

  Henry Quinlan, the Fish and Wildlife Service biologist working on coaster rehabilitation at Whittlesey Creek, and Ed Baker, a research biologist with the Michigan DNR, heartily agree with Huckins.
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  When I asked Baker why Michigan, which has three self-sustaining coaster populations, hasn't been able to do this he said: "Because anglers want splake."To me (and doubtless to Baker, who used the word "unfortunately" when he told me splake stocking was still underway) that's not an answer.

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  www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/1006stur.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/6/2007    Last Visited: 10/7/2007  

  Overseeing the project and the release was MDNR fisheries biologist Ed Baker and a Michigan Tech student.

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  www.glfc.org/sturgeontag/partner-agencies.htm - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 8/10/2009  

  Marquette Fisheries Station, Marquette, MI - Ed Baker

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  www.www.fultoncountyartscouncil.com/pressroom/news.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/24/2007    Last Visited: 3/24/2007  

  Dr. Terrance Martin received a request for historical and archaeological information on lake sturgeon from Dr. Edward A. Baker, Fisheries Research Biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in Marquette.

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  www.fisheries.org/units/miafs/pastpres_comm.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/17/2008    Last Visited: 5/17/2008  

  Past President Ed Baker

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  04/03 - Fish commission gets behind plan for more... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/4/2003    Last Visited: 8/3/2005  

  Efforts to increase the Lake Michigan sturgeon population, which plummeted from more than 5 million fish in the 1800s to less than 5,000 today, will play out in the Muskegon River and other rivers that flow into the lake, said Ed Baker, a fisheries research biologist at the DNR's Marquette fisheries station.Baker serves on the fishery commission's Lake Michigan Committee, which oversees fish management issues in the lake.
  
  "Interest in lake sturgeon has been building for 10 to 15 years," Baker said.
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  Baker said the fishery commission's involvement in sturgeon restoration could reap huge benefits for Michigan rivers in about 20 years.He said fish management agencies must proceed slowly to avoid creating large numbers of inbred sturgeon, which could be biologically disastrous.
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  Vecsei's study of the Muskegon River's sturgeon population will play a major role in determining whether more sturgeon are stocked in the river in the future, Baker said.
  
  Because a previous state study deemed the Muskegon a high priority river for sturgeon rehabilitation efforts, Baker said there is a good chance more of the fish will be stocked in the Muskegon in the future.
  
  Before that happens, however, scientists must determine if the 100 or so adult sturgeon that are native to the Muskegon River have become too inbred to support a larger, healthy, population.If too many of the fish are in-bred, Baker said the state would need to import sturgeon from elsewhere to boost the Muskegon's struggling sturgeon fishery.
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  Baker said he is betting on a much larger sturgeon population in the river, but not before 2020.
  
  "For all the work we're doing now, we won't see the results for 20 years down the road," he said.

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  2001 Lake Sturgeon Research on Black Lake, Michigan - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2001    Last Visited: 9/22/2009  

  By: Edward A. Baker, Ph.D., MDNR Fisheries Research Biologist

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  2001 Lake Sturgeon Research on Black Lake, Michigan - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2001    Last Visited: 9/22/2009  

  CMU Masters student Kregg Smith, DNR Fisheries Research Biologist Dr. Edward Baker, MSU Genetics student Pat DeHaan, and DNR assistant Tom Tryban, utilized large nets to capture the sturgeon.

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  2004 Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Coordination Meeting - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/10/2004    Last Visited: 9/22/2009  

  Ed Baker (Michigan DNR)

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