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Announcement for the WSCS 2022 General Assembly   We cordially invite you to this year’s General Assembly and Board Meeting of the WSCS on December 8, 2022 at 15:00 h CET.  The General Assembly and Board meeting will be held online via Zoom.  A link

WSCS Board Election for the 2023-2027 Term Please find the announcement for the WSCS Board Elections below.  A short (less than 1 page) biography should be submitted by November 15, 2022 to the current Secretary General, Molly Webb, at Molly_Webb@fws.gov for inclusion on the ballot. 

In the EAS 2022 meeting in Rimini, 27-30 September, a session dedicated to sturgeons (Sturgeon Conservation and Restoretion) was held. Attendance was remarkable with over 40 people attending the eleven presentations. At the end of the session, a discussion / round table was held on

An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks. Among them hundred of sturgeons. www.saltwatersportsman.com/news/massive-red-tide-fish-kill-in-san-francisco-bay/ www.saltwatersportsman.com ksltv.com

The European Union granted the LIFE Boat 4 Sturgeons project. Running from 2022 to 2030 with a budget of aprox. 12. Mio €, ten partners from 7 countries along the Danube will work together to stabilize populations of four Danube sturgeon species. The project includes

At 124 inches in length, this rare fish swam past the previous record of 119.5 inches, set in 2019 by Rusty Peterson and friends. While the Snake River around C.J. Strike Reservoir has good numbers of sturgeon, fish over 10 feet are exceedingly rare, and usually only

Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs - an indication the armored "living fossils" may be reproducing in that state for the first time in a half-century. Go to the news

WWF and WSCS have renewed the MoU relating to their collaboration on topics of common interest. The overall purpose of this MOU is to continue a partnership between the WWF and the WSCS, based on the mutual positive evaluation of a previous MOU (2017-2021) and

WSCS sent a letter with their comments regarding the ongoing procedure to exclude Ponto Caspian species from import into the US. The text of the letter can be found, with 96 other comments, on the site: Go to the site

In the picture one of the two Young of the Year Acipenser gueldenstaedtii / Russian sturgeon captured by Marian & Co. at the nursery and monitoring  site (Danube R Km 123). It is the first YoY from natural recruitment in the Lower Danube River in