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The disappearance of Vadim Birstein is a great loss for sturgeon studies. His contributions were of great importance to research on these species and he played a fundamental role in the IUCN SSG. In 1997 he participated in the SAC of the ISS3 in Piacenza,

The WSCS has written a letter of support for the action of the SIAA, the association which intends to perfect the current potential legislation following the determination of the Endangered Species Act relating to the protection of sturgeon species through the prohibition of the importation

Lake sturgeon journeys 651 miles from Wisconsin to Missouri! https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/wisconsin-lake-sturgeon-chippewa-river-jim-falls

USFWS decides lake sturgeon do not warrant federal listing https://apnews.com/article/lake-sturgeon-endangered-list-fish-wildlife-88b4299e1f8223c59794564c70d30c52

Recent sturgeon and paddlefish papers  Káldy, J, G. Fazekas, B Kovács, M Molnár, B Lázár, N Pálinkás-Bodzsár, U Ljubobratovic, G Fazekas, G Kovács, and E Vákonyi. 2024. Unidirectional hybridization between American paddlefish Polyodon spathula (Walbaum, 1792) and sterlet Acipenser ruthenus (Linnaeus, 1758). PeerJ 12:e16717. https://peerj.com/articles/16717/#

Sturgeon fossil found near Edmonton that fills temporal and spatial gaps in ancestral sturgeon evolution! https://phys.org/news/2024-01-fossil-million-year-sturgeon-edmonton.html

Another record-setting paddlefish caught in Missouri! https://phys.org/news/2024-03-largest-fish-missouri-caught-lake.html#google_vignette

Sturgeon have begun spawning in Wisconsin rivers https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/sturgeon/SturgeonSpawning  

The UK Sturgeon Alliance is a coalition of organizations committed to the restoration of sturgeons (A. sturio and A. oxyrinchus) in the UK, including the Zoological Society of London, Blue Marine Foundation, Institute of Fisheries Management, Nature at Work, Severn Rivers Trust, Centre for Environment,

Shared history of Acipenser sturio and Acipenser oxyrinchus in Western EuropeDespite the current efforts to design recovery strategies for sturgeon species in Western Europe, the historical distribution of Acipenser sturio and Acipenser oxyrinchus in the area remains unclear. Our project aims to summarize the current knowledge about the historical distribution of the two sturgeon species based on paleoclimatic and archaeozoological data from available literature. The objective