The focus of the 2006 meeting was to address integration of sturgeon management and law enforcement, which included topics on poaching prevention by law enforcement, involvement of citizen watch groups, demands from the caviar market, use of genetics to monitor the caviar and meat market, recent regulation changes, and Species at Risk process for lake sturgeon in Canada. Other sessions in the meeting covered topics such as habitat use and juvenile ecology, updates on genetics work and the management implications, stream side rearing, and assessment technologies. Each session was concluded by a facilitated discussion. An evening social and poster session featured presentations on a wide range of sturgeon work.

This was the third and last planned meeting, but there was great interest by attendees and the Great Lakes Fishery Trust to continue these meetings. Proceedings from the 2002 and 2004 meetings are available now on the Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Website (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/sturgeon/). The 2006 proceedings will be available in mid 2007.