These organs, called barbels, help the fish to locate bottom-dwelling prey, such as snails, mussels, clams, crayfish, insect larvae, and fish eggs. Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

Lake sturgeon have no scales but are covered by rows of bony scutes. Their preferred habitats are large shallow lakes, rivers and near-shore areas, where they feed using their protruding mouths to ...

A doctorate student will be responsible for monitoring the fish and tracking their locations. Sturgeon are bottom feeders, and Big Stone Lake offers abundant numbers of blood worms, which are the ...

Lake sturgeon is a long-lived and often large freshwater ... they feed largely on small invertebrates including insect larvae, crayfish, snails, clams and leeches.

CHICAGO— A federal court has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a determination by 2024 whether imperiled populations of lake sturgeon will be protected under the Endangered Species ...

There are occasional reports from anglers of catching sturgeon approaching 60 inches in length. Some reports indicate that some of the fish are migrating upstream and downstream of Big Stone Lake.

The 2025 sturgeon spearing season yielded more than twice as many sturgeon as 2024. This is the 10th consecutive year the Lake Winnebago system has lasted the full 16-day season. The Upriver Lakes ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has teamed up again with Saugatuck Brewing Company to help Michigan's environment. According to the DNR, Saugatuck Brewing Company will release a new ...