A century after it disappeared from Swedish waters, scientists in June embarked on a 10-year project to reintroduce the Atlantic sturgeon to a cleaned-up river in the west of the country. In the ...

Some 100,000 Chinese sturgeons were released from their normal captive breeding environment to the Yangtze River in Yichang, Central China's Hubei Province on Saturday morning in a bid by the China ...

MIDLAND, MI – Getting stuck in the Tittabawassee Riverbed was all worth it on a sunny Friday morning. The Chippewa Nature Center hosted a public lake sturgeon release event at the Bob G. Caldwell ...

HUBEI, Central China — Chinese Sturgeons once numbered in the tens of thousands, swimming up and down the lengthy Yangtze River between their upstream spawning grounds and the sea, where they matured ...

Sturgeon have roamed rivers largely unchanged since the age of dinosaurs, growing large enough to fuel monster legends across ...

GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts, February 1, 2012 (ENS) – The federal fisheries agency today announced a final decision to list five distinct population segments of Atlantic sturgeon under the Endangered ...

ATYRAU, KAZAKHSTAN—Scientists working in the Ural River, Kazakhstan, have successfully attached Pop-up Archival Transmitting (PAT) tags to four sturgeons and have released the animals into the Caspian ...

The canvas tents pitched on the tree-lined bank of the Rioni River in late March easily could have passed for a holiday campsite but for the fluttering flags emblazoned with “Save Rioni Valley” in ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; ...

The Soviet caviar industry has a persistent problem: too many sturgeons are males, which yield no caviar.† And despite years of effort, no one yet has discovered any way to alter this unproductive ...