After years of efforts to improve water quality and habitat, along with financial backing from various organisations, the “Return of the Sturgeon” initiative led by the Swedish Anglers Association succeeded in releasing 100 juvenile sturgeons bred in captivity into the river.

The sturgeons were raised in a breeding centre located in the village of Born auf dem Darß, along Germany's Baltic Sea coast, which was one of several German collaborators involved in the initiative. They were later released into the Göta River near Bohus Fortress, in the city of Kungälv, Sweden.