UNION, Neb. (AP) -- Backhoes are breaking into the earth along the Missouri River in an attempt to re-create inviting habitats for big, strange-looking fish that have sparked debate and lawsuits for ...

The projects largely eliminated the fish’s habitat, and Wayne Nelson-Stastny with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said soon it was rare to catch a young pallid sturgeon. “What they were capturing ...

Chrrrrp, chrrrp: Our headphones echo with the tinny peeps of a radio-tagged pallid sturgeon (Scaphyrincus albus). Dave Fuller, a Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries technician, ...

A 126-page document that contains or references most of what is known about the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers has been completed and released to the public. The U.S ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has documented the federally endangered pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River for the first time. Biologists collected two of the rare fish this ...

Scientists studying the pallid sturgeon population in the Missouri River are employing new strategies such as using sonar to map the river bottom and tagging young members of the species as they drift ...

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It’s said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To some, a long-snouted, murky white, boneless bottom feeder native to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers – known as the pallid sturgeon – might not ...

Because of heavy stocking of the first pallid sturgeon progeny that were raised in hatcheries, which was later cut back to ensure there were fish from a variety of adults, one concern biologists have ...

"The Platte has always been an important part of that system," said Peters. "A species like the pallid sturgeon is probably a pretty good indicator of the quality of the river since it can't just ...

In romance, timing is everything. The same is true, it seems, for fish. For the past several weeks, researchers have waited anxiously for the moment when two mature female pallid sturgeon leave the ...

Habitat work The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working with other federal and state co-operators, have proposed modifying Intake Diversion Dam on the lower Yellowstone ...