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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 ...
A group of Wisconsin congressional reps issued a statement urging lake sturgeon in the state be exempt from a potential endangered species listing. ... the agency list the lake sturgeon range-wide ...
[50] [51] [52] Some species of sturgeon are extinct, and several are on the verge of extinction, including the Chinese sturgeon, [53] the highly prized beluga sturgeon, [54] and the Alabama sturgeon. [55] Many species are classified as threatened or endangered, with noticeable declines in sturgeon populations as the demand for caviar increases.
Endangered species designation could have eliminated sturgeon spearing in Wisconsin. Concerns over a possible listing led a bipartisan group of Wisconsin elected officials in December to write a ...
[3] [36] Pallid sturgeon were previously considered a prized trophy game fish species, until their numbers declined and they were placed on the endangered species list. All captured pallid sturgeon must now be released back to the wild. The species was known for being very palatable and the roe from females was used as caviar. [11]
The Beluga sturgeon is an example of a critically endangered species. Their wild populations have been reduced due to overharvesting for its caviar . The current extinction crisis is witnessing extinction rates that are occurring at a faster rate than that of the natural extinction rate.
Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. [5] It is endemic to China and today restricted to the Yangtze River basin, [ 1 ] but was also recorded from the Yellow River basin in the past.
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 ...