FOND DU LAC – Sturgeon spearing season is almost upon us, drawing not only spearers, but also spectators watching the ice for the day's catches, wondering whose is going to be the biggest. "Folks are ...

Iowa DNR seasonal worker Trevon Zeman holds a shovelnose sturgeon as he and Iowa DNR fisheries biologist Chris Mack work an electrofishing river survey in the Cedar River below the dam at ...

The Michigan DNR is celebrating Sturgeon Week to highlight conservation efforts for the lake sturgeon, a protected species in Michigan. Lake sturgeon were once plentiful but overfishing, habitat ...

The bottom fish is the federally endangered pallid sturgeon; the top is the more common shovelnose sturgeon. The color of the pallid is a whitish gray, and the "nose" is more elongated. The Iowa ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Lake sturgeon sightings on Big Stone Lake were few and far between until recent ...

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; ...

TV networks may have "Shark Week," but the Michigan DNR is touting Michigan's less dangerous counterpart with Sturgeon Week. "It’s Shark Week? Not here! No salt, no sharks, no problem," the Michigan ...