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THE DANUBE RIVER STURGEON POPULATION GROWS, DESPITE THE COVID-19 CRISIS Danube Transnational Programme  MEASURES Interreg Newsletter     A year ago, in the first half of 2019, 5,000 juvenile sterlets (Acipenser ruthenus) were released in Hungary, and more than 1,000 of Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii)

Release of farmed mature breeders of ship and sterlet sturgeon in Kuban River and Sea of Azov in March-April 2020 The State Regional Centre for Sturgeon Gene Pool Conservation “Kubanbioresursi” of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnodar Region (Russia), member of the WSCS,

Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems to have undergone very little change. A team of German and Russian researchers has now succeeded in sequencing their genome, delivering a missing piece of the puzzle essential to understanding

The Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) honors the former President of WSCS for  his donation of more than 10,000 offprints and historic publications in the field  of marine ecology to AWI‘s library  with the grand opening of the „Rosenthal Reading Room“ at the Library of the

The European Training Network RIBES “River flow regulation, fish BEhaviour and Status”, funded by the European Commission under the EU Horizon 2020 programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (Grant no. 860800), announces 15 positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) giving the opportunity of being

Following the spread of the virus and the measures taken at international and national level, all planned meetings until at least end of May are postponed. The planned Board Meeting in Padua, scheduled for the 18th - 22nd of March is rescheduled to take place