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

Hayley Herzig speared the 4th-largest sturgeon ever recorded in the Lake Winnebago, Wis. system with the prehistoric fish dwarfing her own body: ...

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 ...

An environmental group plans to sue the New York State Thruway Authority, claiming the agency is improperly dredging material ...

There are occasional reports from anglers of catching sturgeon approaching 60 inches in length. Some reports indicate that ...

Lake sturgeon are a protected species in Michigan and must be released immediately if caught. The fish are long-lived, slow to mature, and were overfished in the 1800s, leading to their threatened ...

Meanwhile, Verhagen's fish was well past spawning age at an estimated 70 to 100 years old, where a sturgeon reaches sexual maturity at 20 to 25 years old. To recap the daily summaries and harvest ...

She posted on Facebook Monday following the catch that it was the fish of a lifetime, including several photos of the monster catch. Herzig's sturgeon was one of 82 speared on opening day.