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 ...

Caviar is not something most people think about being harvested from the St Johns River. Yet, we do have sturgeon that can produce caviar present in the river. Historically, both Atlantic and ...

Michigan wildlife managers, along with their counterparts in Wisconsin, are proposing to add a catch and immediate release season for lake sturgeon on the Menominee River. The Michigan DNR is also ...

Twenty-five years ago, the Tennessee Aquarium embarked on a conservation program to help bring back a locally extinct freshwater fish. Lake sturgeon had been extirpated (locally extinct) in Tennessee ...

Iowa DNR seasonal worker Trevon Zeman holds a shovelnose sturgeon as he and Iowa DNR fisheries biologist Chris Mack work an electrofishing river survey in the Cedar River below the dam at ...

Stefan Lovgren reports on how efforts to save the lake sturgeon are hampered by climate change. This article was first published with Inside Climate News. Lovgren works with the University of Nevada, ...