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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1973, Congress decided U.S. citizens couldn't do without wildlife and enacted the Endangered Species Act. Along the Platte River in Nebraska, the act protects three imperiled species of birds - the ...

Because of heavy stocking of the first pallid sturgeon progeny that were raised in hatcheries, which was later cut back to ensure there were fish from a variety of adults, one concern biologists have ...

The pallid sturgeon lives at the bottom of the murky Mississippi River, but its struggle to survive has surfaced as an issue in plans to demolish the old Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau.

Habitat work The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working with other federal and state co-operators, have proposed modifying Intake Diversion Dam on the lower Yellowstone ...

ST. LOUIS | The discovery of two lab-confirmed tiny pallid sturgeons in the Missouri River near St. Louis offers fresh proof the endangered species descending from the dinosaur era is reproducing, the ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Decades of recovery efforts are bringing one of the Missouri's endangered and longest-living fish back to prominence according to new findings this spring. Capable ...

LINCOLN – More than 2,000 5- to 6-inch pallid sturgeon were stocked in the channelized portion of the Missouri River along Nebraska’s eastern border on Aug. 24. The stocking is part of the Nebraska ...

"The Platte has always been an important part of that system," said Peters. "A species like the pallid sturgeon is probably a pretty good indicator of the quality of the river since it can't just ...