Acoustically tagged Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) of the Genesee River, 2019-2020

Acoustic telemetry is an effective tool for the study of fish survivorship and habitat use. Fish are tagged with acoustic tags and presence data is collected with stationary receivers. This data set contains a total of 69 hatchery tagged juvenile Lake Sturgeon released into the Genesee River, NY in the Fall of 2019 and 2020, along with data for 30 sub-adult Lake Sturgeon field tagged in the summer of 2019 and fall 2020. The juvenile Lake Sturgeon data includes release date, location, PIT tag number, acoustic tag number, length, weight, year class, and sex. The sub-adult Lake Sturgeon data includes capture date, location, PIT Tag, acoustic tag, length, weight, girth, year class, and sex. Telemetry detection data was funded and collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and State University of New York (SUNY)-Brockport.