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Lake sturgeon are one of the oldest fish species in North America and are native to at least two dozen states in the central, southern and eastern U.S. according to the USFWS.
Lake sturgeon fishing and spearing seasons as well as other management programs will continue under a decision announced Monday by federal officials.
Fishing for lake sturgeon in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan is not a threat to the ancient species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) concluded in its decision not to list the giant fish ...
U.S. Endangered Species List: Flora—plants Species Search at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: "List of endangered species"
Critically endangered plants are listed separately. There are 6147 plant species which are endangered or critically endangered. Additionally 1674 plant species (7.6% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small ...
[51] [52] [53] Some species of sturgeon are extinct, and several are on the verge of extinction, including the Chinese sturgeon, [54] the highly prized beluga sturgeon, [55] and the Alabama sturgeon. [56] Many species are classified as threatened or endangered, with noticeable declines in sturgeon populations as the demand for caviar increases.
The Gulf sturgeon was first recognized as a separate subspecies in 1955. The nominate subspecies is the Atlantic sturgeon, A. o. oxyrinchus. [5] The Gulf sturgeon is listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act, having been listed in 1991.
An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. [1] As of 2021, of the 120,372 species currently tracked by the IUCN, there are 8,404 species that are considered to be critically ...