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Dear Word Fish Migration Day colleagues,   We would like to share specially with our WFMD present and past participants this important news beforehand. Tomorrow on July 28th at 00:01 European Central Time we will be releasing the first-ever Living Planet Index for Migratory Freshwater

180,000 juvenile Ship sturgeon released into the Sefidroud River (south of the Caspian Sea) by Iran despite the Covid-19 crisis Ship sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris) is one of the 27 species of Acipenseridae, whose offspring are in great danger of extinction, and unfortunately there is no

New WORLD RECORD Paddlefish snagged in Oklahoma- 146.7 lbs (66.5 kg) Read more World Record Paddlefish: Conspiracies, Genetics, and Advances in Snagging Technology. Read more

Sturgeon in the New York Times! This article describes how the Donella Miller of the Yakama Nation is working to develop local caviar production as part of the conservation strategy for Columbia River white sturgeon. Read more

A large Acipenser sturio (240 cm TL) caught in the Gironde estuary last Wednesday afternoon, probably one of the few survivors of cohorts 1988 or 1994 which were heavily exploited by poachers when they moved out of the estuary. The sturgeon returned to the water

THE DANUBE RIVER STURGEON POPULATION GROWS, DESPITE THE COVID-19 CRISIS Danube Transnational Programme  MEASURES Interreg Newsletter     A year ago, in the first half of 2019, 5,000 juvenile sterlets (Acipenser ruthenus) were released in Hungary, and more than 1,000 of Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii)

Release of farmed mature breeders of ship and sterlet sturgeon in Kuban River and Sea of Azov in March-April 2020 The State Regional Centre for Sturgeon Gene Pool Conservation “Kubanbioresursi” of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnodar Region (Russia), member of the WSCS,

Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems to have undergone very little change. A team of German and Russian researchers has now succeeded in sequencing their genome, delivering a missing piece of the puzzle essential to understanding

The Wolf River Sturgeon Trail near New London has been a popular place for years to see the prehistoric fish make their way upstream. The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting a popular spring past time--sturgeon watching. See movie

The Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) honors the former President of WSCS for  his donation of more than 10,000 offprints and historic publications in the field  of marine ecology to AWI‘s library  with the grand opening of the „Rosenthal Reading Room“ at the Library of the