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Atlantic sturgeon were fished almost to extinction − ancient DNA reveals how Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries by Naomi Schalit https://theconversation.com/atlantic-sturgeon-were-fished-almost-to-extinction-ancient-dna-reveals-how-chesapeake-bay-population-changed-over-centuries-241104  

Early Lessons Drawn from the Klamath Dam Removal Effort by Paul S. Weiland.https://www.calwatercenter.org/deltacurrents/early-lessons-drawn-from-the-klamath-dam-removal-effort

The LIFE RESTORE project has been officially approved under the EU LIFE Programme, aiming to safeguard the critically endangered Adriatic sturgeon (Acipenser naccarii). Led by the University of Padova, the initiative will release over 71,000 sturgeons, most of which will be of considerable size (3+

LIFE-Boat4Sturgeon: Floating Hatchery arrives in Vienna Another milestone was achieved in protecting the endangered sturgeon populations in the Danube. Following the completion of a new docking station on the Danube Island, the former freight ship MS Negrelli has been transferred from Linz and converted into

Environmentalists sue New York, New Jersey and Delaware over endangered sturgeon - Phys.org New York, New Jersey and Delaware were accused in federal lawsuits Thursday of improperly allowing Atlantic sturgeon to be killed by commercial fishing operations even as the prehistoric fish is ... https://phys.org/news/2024-10-environmentalists-sue-york-jersey-delaware.html

As part of the project "Supporting Conservation Actions to Implement the Pan-European Action Plan for Sturgeons", funded through a call for tender (ENV/2022/OP/0019), a group of European experts led by WWF Europedeveloped the following guidelines, recently adopted by the Bern Convention: Assessment of the habitat

The Sturgeon Project of the Province of Venice has continued with the restocking efforts, and the latest release took place in recent days, as detailed below. Thursday, November 28, 2024: Reintroduction of 150 individuals of the Adriatic sturgeon (Acipenser naccarii) – sub-adults, measuring between 70/100

The original version of this book was printed in Russian in 2022. Lyudmila Krayushkina contacted us in November 2022, expressing her desire to have her work translated into English to benefit other researchers interested in the adaptive aspects of sturgeons and their conservation. We immediately

PRESS RELEASE European Parliament fails to halt disastrous hydropower project jeopardising local livelihoods and endangered species   WWF and CEE Bankwatch Network question the EU Commission's reasons for putting this decades-old project on the Danube river on its priority investment list 27 September, Brussels, Sofia,

An ongoing investigation led by the Connecticut River Conservancy has for the first time detected DNA from the endangered shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the Connecticut River between Turners Falls, MA, and Bellows Falls, VT/Walpole, NH. https://www.ctriver.org/post/edna-shortnose-sturgeon-connecticut-river