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The WSCS and NASPS held a joint Governing Board meeting on 18 February 2021 to discuss shared objectives for each society. Publications, planned meetings and workshops, and supported conservation actions for each society were discussed. One joint activity to highlight is the development of an

The First National Symposium on Caviar Production and export, its derivatives, hopes and challenges was organized by the Iran National Innovation Fund & Healthy Products Network under the Biotechnology Development Council of vice presidency for Science and Technology, On Thursday 4thof February, 2021. Tehran- Iran.

The new FAO Report of Inland Fishery, compiling information on fish catches at a basin level, mentions also sturgeon fishery. Over 45 rivers and great lake basins supporting inland fisheries, sturgeon fishery is reported in 9 rivers and two lakes. To make easier for sturgeonists

The restoration of the extinct Adriatic population of Beluga sturgeon, an iconic species with economic and traditional relevance, is a priority in upcoming conservation strategies but it must not occur without deep prior knowledge on the current diversity distribution. We defined informed criteria for the

There are no guarantees for the survival of white sturgeon on the upper Columbia but there’s’ still hope. The population is dangerously low, but it’s stable enough to have staved off extirpation, giving researchers time to solve the puzzle of why many of these prehistoric

The annual lake sturgeon spear fishery on the Winnebago System, Wisconsin gets underway on February 13. The season will go on as normal this year, however, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be utilizing a new process for collection data from harvested fish.  

The  10° International Sturgeon Conference, co-organized by WSCS and AllerAqua, is planned to be held in the second half of November in Warsaw, if possible, or virtual. read more

Chinese officials and researchers on Thursday released 80 Dabry's sturgeon into the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the latest effort to replenish the wild population of the endangered fish. The release of 80 captive-bred sturgeon, launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is a wildlife conservation organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide. The Caucasus programme has FFI’s only sturgeon conservation project. The project focusses on Georgia and covers the eastern Black Sea and the river holding the last reported spawning grounds

The EU Commission has operned a public consultation process on the NAIADES III Action Plan for the development of Inland Waterway Transport aiming to: "achieve the continuous and reliable navigability of the trans-European inland waterway network and in those inner cities where inland waterways can