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The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
Lake sturgeon fishing and spearing seasons as well as other management programs in Wisconsin and other states will continue under a decision announced Monday by federal officials.. After a years ...
If lake sturgeon were listed under the ESA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could still allow state fisheries to hold harvest seasons with a fish management plan that is consistent with recovery.
However, some species have evolved purely freshwater existences, such as the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) and the Baikal sturgeon (A. baerii baicalensis), or have been forced into them by human or natural impoundment of their native rivers, as in the case of some subpopulations of white sturgeon (A. transmontanus) in the Columbia River ...
“That impressive journey is the longest-known distance a Chippewa River lake sturgeon has traveled!” Wisconsin officials said. Sturgeon travels record-setting distance down Mississippi ...
Sturgeon Lake is a lake on Sauvie Island in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] Named for its historical population of sturgeon , it is the largest lake on what is one of the largest river islands in the United States. [ 2 ]
Sturgeon are native to the Columbia River drainage, and they're found in a number of places along the upper Columbia River, including Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir formed by Grand Coulee Dam.
Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) O, extinct in West Virginia; Shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) O, VU [2] Family Polyodontidae (paddlefishes) American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) O, rare, VU [3]