The ancient fish has survived unchanged for almost 200 million years, but is now at the brink of extinction from overharvesting and rapid habitat change. Among the largest, longest-living fish in ...
One of 17 sturgeon species belonging to the Acipenser ... but they have been extirpated from most regions due to habitat loss and overfishing. Most experts believe very few migratory sturgeons ...
A combination of water resources and dedicated people have succeeded in helping lake sturgeon thrive while they have failed elsewhere.
More than a century has passed since the St. Louis River teemed with lake sturgeon, the largest of all Great Lakes fish and ...
So, what would cause a country to ban a fish? Click here to find out why the beluga sturgeon is banned in the U.S.
It’s been a decade since my first lake sturgeon trip to the Rainy River. My first fish battled me on a doubled over heavy action rod for over 20 minutes in what felt like a quantum leap ...
Six feet – that’s the length of the longest lake sturgeon tagged by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. And there’s a chance a Rainy River angler could catch that ...
The program enlists volunteers to look for and report illegal activity, including harassment and taking of sturgeon as the fish are attempting to spawn. Exploitation, lack of spawning habitat ...