Heavy shipping traffic, overfishing, and water pollution have ... and there are fears that wild Chinese sturgeon may soon go extinct like their Chinese paddlefish relatives. The adults are ...

Despite their survival through several geological time periods, many present-day sturgeon species are at ... before intense overfishing depleted their numbers. Then we can compare that baseline ...

The lake sturgeon is an ancient fish species that lives primarily in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River drainage. It has declined by roughly 99 percent over the past century because of ...

White sturgeon require high river flows to reproduce successfully. Regular overfishing and lethal algae outbreaks have also contributed to the sturgeon's dramatic decline. The California Fish and ...

Despite their survival through several geological time periods, many present-day sturgeon species are at threat of extinction ... sturgeons that lived hundreds of years ago, before intense overfishing ...