A native California species is rapidly declining. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America. According to a new report, there are just 6500 white sturgeon between 40 and 60 ...
Lake sturgeon sightings on Big Stone Lake were few and far between until recent years. BJ Bauer felt like each glimpse of Minnesota’s largest fish would prompt a call to his Ortonville office from an ...
The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — So often anglers tell tales of the fish they've caught and the stories are much bigger than the fishes themselves. That wasn't the case for 22-year-old Hayley Herzig, who caught ...
Sturgeons are one of the oldest groups of fishes. Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal scutes and a sharklike tail fin, this group of several-hundred-pound beasts has ...
A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet the muskellunge, calling them the kings of freshwater. But these anglers must not fish for lake sturgeon. Indeed, in Wisconsin, which has dubbed ...
GLAND, Switzerland (21 July 2022) – International conservation organisations are calling on governments to “stop turning a blind eye” to the extinction of sturgeon and paddlefish as the world’s first ...