The 2026 Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season will open Saturday, Feb. 14, and will run for 16 days, or until harvest caps are met.
The harvest limit for the ’26 season is six sturgeon. The season will end at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, or when either the sixth fish is harvested or five fish have been harvested at
Fans of fish, particularly big, old, unusual fish, have a new way to learn about them: “Dinosaur Fish,” a 23-minute documentary film available online at SaginawBaySturgeon.org. That’s a website of the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a series of informational meetings across the northern regions of the state to educate the public on various fisheries management and habitat topics.
The meetings
Reintroduction efforts for state-endangered lake sturgeon expanded to the Cuyahoga, Sandusky, and Scioto rivers in 2025, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
As part of a large, regional partnership, the 6-
Lake sturgeon, a native species of New York and capable of living for more than 100 years, has been making a comeback in recent years. Thanks to the efforts of local fishing agencies, Mother Nature
The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife has a new breed of fisheries biologists whose efforts are concentrated on wildlife diversity.
These men and women aren’t new to the Division of Wildlife, but their collective
A Saginaw Bay fish looking for a place to spawn has a new option along the Bay’s northeast shore, two miles from the mouth of the Saginaw River.
There, thanks to a community collaborative
As light rain fell on the morning of Oct. 15, about 95 people gathered in Fremont, Ohio, to witness the first-ever stocking of lake sturgeon into the Sandusky River, a fish with a family tree
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