2000 Canoe Trip on the Historic St. Louis River

In August 2000, with beautiful weather, the CAC's Environmental Stewardship Committee held a canoe (and kayak) trip on the St. Louis River departing from Boy Scout Landing. The trip was narrated by Frank Koshere, Wisconsin DNR aquatic biologist and Jerome Blasevic, who has been a resident of Duluth for 75 years. Frank Koshere gave the group the heads-up concerning slamming sturgeon. Right now, according to Koshere, area natural resource agencies are working hard to re-establish the native sturgeon back into our river. These primitive fish, which can grow to over two-hundred pounds, practice a mating ritual that will be of interest to those in small watercraft on the river. In order to insure egg fertilization, the adult sturgeon slam into each other. What this will mean to canoes and kayaks, which when seen from underwater can look a lot like adult sturgeon, remains to be seen. Jerome Blasevic told many anecdotes filled with information about historic uses of the river.