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The new FAO Report of Inland Fishery, compiling information on fish catches at a basin level, mentions also sturgeon fishery. Over 45 rivers and great lake basins supporting inland fisheries, sturgeon fishery is reported in 9 rivers and two lakes. To make easier for sturgeonists

There are no guarantees for the survival of white sturgeon on the upper Columbia but there’s’ still hope. The population is dangerously low, but it’s stable enough to have staved off extirpation, giving researchers time to solve the puzzle of why many of these prehistoric

The annual lake sturgeon spear fishery on the Winnebago System, Wisconsin gets underway on February 13. The season will go on as normal this year, however, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be utilizing a new process for collection data from harvested fish.  

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is a wildlife conservation organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide. The Caucasus programme has FFI’s only sturgeon conservation project. The project focusses on Georgia and covers the eastern Black Sea and the river holding the last reported spawning grounds

The Wisconsin DNR released a short video entitled “Partners in Sharing” that highlights some collaborative work that the agency has been involved with for sturgeon restoration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybUlJGRwFM&t=39s The Wisconsin DNR also completed a lake sturgeon spawning habitat project on the Wolf River this fall, which