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A hook-and-line sturgeon season is held in fall on many major river systems in the state. Anglers are allowed to keep one fish per year but most fishing is catch-and-release.
Atlantic sturgeons only need to move a short distance to reach rearing areas. Early sturgeon migrants tend to be nocturnal while later migrants are diurnal. [8] During summer months, sturgeon will remain in localized bottom areas of the rivers. In the late fall, the sturgeon migrate out of spawning rivers and into the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
An Atlantic sturgeon at the Aquarium du Québec. Rather than having true scales, the Atlantic sturgeon has five rows of bony plates known as scutes.Specimens weighing over 800 lb and nearly 15 ft in length have been recorded, but they typically grow to be 6–8 ft (1.8–2.4 m) and no more than 300 lb (140 kg).
The 2024 season, which will run through Feb. 25, has so far yielded 353 total sturgeon — 249 from Lake Winnebago and 104 from the Upriver Lakes — as of Feb. 19.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has designated most of the tidal Potomac River, including the waters of the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary, as a critical habitat for the Atlantic sturgeon, which uses freshwater coastal environments like the ones found in the sanctuary as spawning grounds and nursery habitats. [26]
Sturgeon were America's vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation's rivers until mankind's craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction. More than a century ...
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The 2024 sturgeon spearing season will open at 7 a.m. Feb. 10 and close Feb. 25, unless one of the harvest caps is reached earlier. ... Winter storm expected to dump snow, ice, from Plains to mid ...