Can you give us some background, how Toledo got involved with sturgeon repopulation?

Yeah, so this was one of those stories that started happening before I even got to the zoo in 2016.

So I think it was 2008 and maybe before some partners in Fish and Wildlife had done some surveys of the Maumee River and maybe some of the other tributaries looking to see if there were sturgeons still spawning out here.

Because we used to have 19 spawning populations in Lake Erie and we're down to two.

So Buffalo ended up coming up from the Detroit River.

And so They found that there wasn't evidence of spawning in these tributaries.

And so from 2008 to 2016 was planning, trying to get all the pieces in motion.

It looks like a dirty sock in the water, yeah.

He's the director of vertebrate conservation at the zoo.

Part of the really cool thing about lake sturgeon is they're one of these iconic fish in the Great Lakes.

In Lake Erie, they're our largest fish.

Um, they...

Like, the adults get to be six to eight feet long.

They, they can weigh hundreds of pounds.

There was one caught in the Detroit River, I think 2020, 2021, that was, um, seven feet long and, like, 200-plus pounds.

Here's Matt Cross from the zoo again.

Hmm

... shadow parliamentary secretary for men's health, and you're seeing around the country, uh, the establishment of these, uh, ministries.

And federally, uh, Dan Rupakuli, he's the, uh, min-- uh, the envoy for men's health.

So this is starting to emerge across the country.

So with the 10-year plan that you've put together today, uh, with the opposition leader and Sarah Mitchell as well, what does it aim to achieve?

So in twenty eighteen, then Health Minister Brad Hazzard released a men's health strategy.

And look, the pandemic then happened, and it's sadly just been sitting on the shelf gathering dust.

So what we announced last night is that an elected Liberal Nationals government will, uh, update that plan, make it a 10-year plan, a 10-year strategy, uh, and, uh, try and listen to the experts, bring everyone together, and make sure that that plan then can be fully implemented.