Since pallid sturgeon aren’t strong swimmers, that rarely happened. Unable to successfully spawn with such dams in place, in 1990 pallid sturgeon on the Yellowstone and upper Missouri rivers were ...

In romance, timing is everything. The same is true, it seems, for fish. For the past several weeks, researchers have waited anxiously for the moment when two mature female pallid sturgeon leave the ...

During a sampling of fish in the Des Moines River near Ottumwa, Iowa, the state's Department of Natural Resources was thrilled to discover a couple of very large, very welcome inhabitants. Local ...

Pallid sturgeons, which can reach six feet long and live 60 years, flourished for eons in murky American waters. NEBRASKAland Magazine / Nebraska Game and Parks Commission It's cold. Here on the North ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has documented the federally endangered pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River for the first time. Biologists collected two of the rare fish this ...

A pallid sturgeon netted on the Yellowstone River near the confluence of the Missouri River is probably over 60 years old. Aging the fish is difficult, but there has been no documented successful ...

A 126-page document that contains or references most of what is known about the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers has been completed and released to the public. The U.S ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission recently collected broodstock to aid in the recovery of the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River. Eggs collected from captured pallid ...

Pallid sturgeon may be on the edge of extinction without the efforts of the population assessment program, said Kirk Steffensen, a fisheries biologist with Nebraska Game and Parks. Steffensen leads ...

Anglers heading to northwestern North Dakota in search of paddlefish should brush up on their fish identification skills. They could snag a rare pallid sturgeon. When the paddlefish snagging season ...