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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

The latest global assessment conducted by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Sturgeon Specialist Group), dating back to 2010, classified all 27 species that compose the order of Acipenseriformes as Critically Endangered, with varying degrees of criticality. On 21 July 2022, the

"Esetrite – Vetren" is the first protected territory aimed at the conservation of sturgeons in Bulgaria. Following a proposal by WWF, late last week, the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water (MEW) declared a new protected area along the Danube River, Esetrite – Vetren. The

A study resulting from the collaboration between China and Italy and based on genetic and microchemical investigations will be published shortly on the journal "Science of the total environment", highlighting once more the very serious state of danger of the Chinese sturgeon due to the