On the banks of British Columbia’s Fraser River, this expedition seeks out the elusive white sturgeon—an ancient fish species that can weigh over 1,000 pounds. The team documents the full experience, ...

New protections for white sturgeon may impact farm water supplies and increase costs for local water agencies. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo) California’s effort to protect an ...

A female sturgeon captured by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tagged to document movement in the San Joaquin River Basin. April 17, 2024 (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Bay City News) After over 100 ...

The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho raises juvenile white sturgeon at their hatchery near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Ecologists describe the sturgeon as a living dinosaur. The large ...

The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers and San Francisco Bay, has declined in numbers to a point that state officials will consider whether ...

Four Bay Area environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Secretary of the U.S, Department of the Interior failed to deliver a ...

This is a tale of two fishermen—and their timeless lesson, to boot. The first of them was a biologist: tall, strapping, and a keen student of all fish. An angler, through and through. There was hardly ...