On November 10, 2007, Richard Braasch interviewed Clarence Hopp for the People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish project. Clarence Hopp, born on January 23, 1951, in Berlin, Wisconsin, grew up as the only child in a farming family. His father also worked at a foundry during the last ten years before retirement. Clarence followed in his father’s footsteps and worked at the same foundry.