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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.
In 2012, the largest sturgeon ever caught on Lake Winnebago (a female) was 125 years old, weighed 240 lb., and measured 87.5 in. in length. It was tagged and released by scientists from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. [28] The sturgeon is also present in Quebec in the St. Lawrence River, where it is targeted by commercial fisheries.
The population of lake sturgeon in the Winnebago System (lakes Winnebago, Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne and the Fox and Wolf rivers) numbers about 35,000 adult fish and is among the ...
The Winnebago system, including Wolf and Fox Rivers and associated lakes, is home to the largest population of Lake Sturgeon in the world. The sturgeon which spawn annually in the springtime in the Wolf River and its parent, the Fox River, between approximately April 15 and May 5, as they swim upstream from Lake Winnebago. It is estimated that ...
More recently, Lake Winnebago's season has lasted the full 16 days since 2016, and while 2017, 2020 and 2024 have fallen on bad luck, they still haven't topped 1969 or 1973. More history: It ...
Lake Winnebago. Lake Winnebago (Menominee: Wenepekōw Nepēhsæh, [1] Ojibwe: Wiinibiigoo-zaaga'igan, Oneida: kanyataláheleˀ[2]) is a shallow freshwater lake in the north central United States, located in east central Wisconsin. At 137,700 acres, it is the largest lake entirely within the state, [3] covering an area of about 30 miles by 10 ...
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.
And for those interested, you can find out how many sturgeon were tagged during the spring of 2023 as well as how population values are doing compared to past years in the 2023 Winnebago lake ...