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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

The European Training Network RIBES “River flow regulation, fish BEhaviour and Status”, funded by the European Commission under the EU Horizon 2020 programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (Grant no. 860800), announces 15 positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) giving the opportunity of being

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

Poachers are not afraid of viruses. Fortunately, the Ukrainian Izmail Frontier Detachment, the Bulgarian Border Police and the Executive Agency of Fisheries and Aquaculture (EAFA) are still very active during this most important period of sturgeon migration and spawning in the Danube. Go to the

Following the spread of the virus and the measures taken at international and national level, all planned meetings until at least end of May are postponed. The planned Board Meeting in Padua, scheduled for the 18th - 22nd of March is rescheduled to take place

Conference at the EU Parliament On the initiative of MEP Mrs. Carmen Avram, MEP, Member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH), a conference was held in the European Parliament on the theme "Saving the last EU dinosaur: the sturgeon", to which the WSCS (P. Bronzi)

On September 5, 2019, the Conservation of Endangered Fishes (CEF) of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences published the world's first paper on the whole genome of sturgeon in the international journal “Frontiers in Genetics”. The whole genome of the

The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) was last recorded by researchers in 2003. Subsequent local surveys failed to spot any individual. A new study based on a comprehensive large-scale survey in 2017 and 2018 and statistical analysis of previous records suggest that the species most likely