Sturgeon Bay

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Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay is located in Wisconsin
Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay
LocationDoor County, Wisconsin
Coordinates44°51′15″N 87°23′40″W / 44.85417°N 87.39444°W / 44.85417; -87.39444Coordinates: 44°51′15″N 87°23′40″W / 44.85417°N 87.39444°W / 44.85417; -87.39444
TypeBay
Surface elevation581 feet (177 m)
SettlementsSturgeon Bay, Nasewaupee, Sevastopol, Idlewild
Looking southeast across Sturgeon Bay
Looking northeast at the mouth of Sturgeon Bay

Sturgeon Bay is an arm of Green Bay extending southeastward approximately 10 miles into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, located approximately halfway up the Door Peninsula.[1] The bay is connected to Lake Michigan by the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. The Potowatomi name for Sturgeon Bay is "Na-ma-we-qui-tong".[2]

Bridges[]

Three bridges cross the bay, including the historic Sturgeon Bay Bridge, and the recently finished Oregon Street Bridge.

Fish[]

Sturgeon Bay and Little Sturgeon (just to the south of Sturgeon Bay) are considered biodiversity hotspots because they support a large number of different fish species.[3]

Researchers collected viral hemorrhagic septicemia viruses from 184 different fish from 2003 to 2017. Two were found from 2007–2010 infecting smallmouth bass within Sturgeon Bay. Each of them was a different variant of a type not found in the middle or lower Great Lakes.[4]

Mayflies[]

In June 2016, an estimated several thousand mayflies hatched in Sawyer Bay (within Sturgeon Bay). This was the result of an experiment to stock millions of eggs from the species Hexagenia limbata and Hexagenia bilineata in the lower Green Bay area in an attempt to reintroduce the species. The last mayfly from the genus Hexagenia had been collected in the lower Green Bay area in 1955. As mayfly populations can be unstable and not all stocking locations appeared to be successful, as of 2017 it was not yet known whether it would be possible for populations of Hexagenia mayflies to become self-sustaining.[5]

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Dunlap Reef (in the middle of the bay)
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Notes[]

  1. ^ "Sturgeon Bay (Wisconsin)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ The Wisconsin Archeologist, Volume 19, No 2, page 50
  3. ^ Kovalenko, Katya E.; Johnson, Lucinda B.; Brady, Valerie J.; Ciborowski, Jan J. H.; Cooper, Matthew J.; Gathman, Joseph P.; Lamberti, Gary A.; Moerke, Ashley H.; Ruetz, Carl R.; Uzarski, Donald G. (July 2, 2019). "Hotspots and bright spots in functional and taxonomic fish diversity". Freshwater Science. 38 (3): 480–490. doi:10.1086/704713. ISSN 2161-9549.
  4. ^ Evolutionary trajectory of fish Piscine novirhabdovirus (=Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus) across its Laurentian Great Lakes history: Spatial and temporal diversification by Carol A. Stepien and Megan D. Niner, Ecology and Evolution, Volume 10, May 10, 2020, pages 9740–9775
  5. ^ Evaluation of lower Green Bay benthic fauna with emphasis on re-ecesis of Hexagenia mayfly nymphs by Jerry L. Kaster, Christopher M. Groff, J. Val Klump, Danielle L. Rupp, Suneil Iyer, Ashely Hansen, Samantha Barbour, and Louisa Hall, doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.06.006, Journal of Great Lakes Research (2018), p. 14
  6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved January 30, 2016.


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