23 episodes
People of the Sturgeon University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
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Ancient Survivors - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish.
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Beneath the Ice - The Art of Sturgeon Spearing - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 1
Vern Gebhart of Hilbert, Wisconsin carves sturgeon decoys as a hobby. As he notes, it takes 20 to 30 hours to make each one.
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Beneath the Ice - The Art of Sturgeon Spearing - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 2
A sturgeon-spear maker takes up the family tradition.
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Beneath the Ice - The Art of Sturgeon Spearing - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 3
"If you can carve duck decoys, carve me a sturgeon decoy." Appleton's George Schmidt, who carved his first sturgeon decoy way back in 1955, talks about his "hobby".
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Beneath the Ice - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 1
When can you have a spear in the fishing shack? Wisconsin's "Mr. Sturgeon," Ron Bruch, runs it down.
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Beneath the Ice - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 2
The Menominee tribe's preferred strategy for spearing sturgeon, as described by a visiting Dominican missionary in the 1830s.
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Beneath the Ice - This playlist consists of clips for the audiobook version of People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's love affair with an ancient fish. Clip 3
The ritual of sturgeon spearing: "Like trying to shoot a duck while looking up through a chimney." Listen to the sounds of a successful catch.