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WSCS Board Election for the 2023-2027 Term Please find the announcement for the WSCS Board Elections below.  A short (less than 1 page) biography should be submitted by November 15, 2022 to the current Secretary General, Molly Webb, at Molly_Webb@fws.gov for inclusion on the ballot. 

In the EAS 2022 meeting in Rimini, 27-30 September, a session dedicated to sturgeons (Sturgeon Conservation and Restoretion) was held. Attendance was remarkable with over 40 people attending the eleven presentations. At the end of the session, a discussion / round table was held on

The European Union granted the LIFE Boat 4 Sturgeons project. Running from 2022 to 2030 with a budget of aprox. 12. Mio €, ten partners from 7 countries along the Danube will work together to stabilize populations of four Danube sturgeon species. The project includes

WWF and WSCS have renewed the MoU relating to their collaboration on topics of common interest. The overall purpose of this MOU is to continue a partnership between the WWF and the WSCS, based on the mutual positive evaluation of a previous MOU (2017-2021) and

WSCS sent a letter with their comments regarding the ongoing procedure to exclude Ponto Caspian species from import into the US. The text of the letter can be found, with 96 other comments, on the site: Go to the site

The latest global assessment conducted by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Sturgeon Specialist Group), dating back to 2010, classified all 27 species that compose the order of Acipenseriformes as Critically Endangered, with varying degrees of criticality. On 21 July 2022, the