The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers and San Francisco Bay, has declined in numbers to a point that state officials will consider whether ...

A female sturgeon captured by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tagged to document movement in the San Joaquin River Basin. April 17, 2024 (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Bay City News) After over 100 ...

(CDFW) that’s expected to take at least a year to complete. In the meantime, once the state’s Office of Administrative Law publishes the action, white sturgeon will be provisionally protected under ...

The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...

The US state of California is closing the white sturgeon fishery while it conducts a thorough conservation review to determine if the species should be listed as endangered or threatened. This comes ...

(FOX40.COM) — What’s considered one of the largest freshwater fish in North America was observed on camera for the first time ...

This is a tale of two fishermen—and their timeless lesson, to boot. The first of them was a biologist: tall, strapping, and a keen student of all fish. An angler, through and through. There was hardly ...

The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho raises juvenile white sturgeon at their hatchery near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Ecologists describe the sturgeon as a living dinosaur. The large ...

PORTLAND — Sturgeon fishing will not open as usual on Jan. 1, 2026, for the Bonneville and The Dalles pools on the Columbia River. Fishery managers in Oregon and Washington decided during a hearing on ...

The increasingly popular Bonneville pool sturgeon retention fishery is slated to open on Wednesday. This year the retention fishing days have been reduced from three to two days a week. Anglers may ...

Sam Travioli of Orosi holds his new personal best striper caught in the San Luis Reservoir. The fish spanned 42 inches and weighed 32 pounds. It was released unharmed using the Seaqualizer release ...

Last week, the California Fish and Game Commission moved to list white sturgeon under the Golden State’s Endangered Species Act. The action kicks off a review process by the California Department of ...