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Photo by MANDI BATEMAN Mark Elliston, Jr., Aquacultural Technician for the Kootenai Tribe, oversaw the sturgeon release from the water, answering questions and making sure that the sturgeon were handled carefully.

Photo by MANDI BATEMAN Mark Elliston, Jr., Aquacultural Technician for the Kootenai Tribe, oversaw the sturgeon release from the water, answering questions and making sure that the sturgeon were handled carefully.

May 16, 2019

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Setting sturgeon loose
May 16, 2019 1 a.m.

Setting sturgeon loose

BONNERS FERRY — Eight-year-old Ella Alexander gently scooped the young Kootenai white sturgeon from one of the waiting buckets, carried it carefully to water’s edge at the Waterways Boat Launch, and under the watchful eyes of Mark Elliston, Jr., Aquacultural Technician for the Kootenai Tribe — she released the juvenile fish into the Kootenai River to begin its new life. Ella went back, fish after fish, naming each one as she turned it loose.