Harvest data from Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing season critical to getting population estimate

If the Center for Biological Diversity is successful in forcing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add sturgeon to the Endangered Species List and Wisconsin’s sturgeon are not exempted from the listing, the result could do more than just threaten a longtime spearing culture on the Winnebago system. It could hurt the local economy in the Lake Winnebago area and  anywhere sturgeon fans also fish the fall hook-and-line season.
An ESL listing would ban the harvest of sturgeon and that would disrupt the science used to estimate the sturgeon population in the Lake Winnebago system.

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