On Dec. 20, 2005, Fishery Biologist Adam Kowalski gave a presentation at the Michigan DNR lake sturgeon committee meeting about the newly constructed Great Lakes wide lake sturgeon tagging database. Kowalski explained that a grant for $11,000 was received from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust in 2004 to construct and maintain a database to house tag information such as tag type, tag number, tag location, and tagger contact information in 2004.

Kowalski also updated the group on the current status of the database which contains over 10,000 PIT tags and over 100 external tag sequences and emphasized the need for everyone to send their data to him to be entered into the database for improved data sharing among lake sturgeon researchers. Kowalski also told the group that the database is housed at the Great Lakes Fishery Commissions web site and can be viewed at the following web address http://www.glfc.org/sturgeontag/index.htm.