Matt Balazik surveyed Virginia’s James River for the carcass of a local legend. Growing up along the 340-mile tributary to ...

Atlantic sturgeon hatch in freshwater rivers from ... A few years later they migrate back to the their natal rivers to spawn. Unlike salmon, the females don’t die after spawning but will ...

conservationists have pioneered genetic studies on Atlantic sturgeon, demonstrating through the power of DNA that the “natal river” — where a fish is born — and season of spawning are both ...

Biologists conduct most of this research during the spring and early summer, when Atlantic sturgeon swim up the Hudson and other coastal rivers to spawn. An anadromous species, they spend the rest of ...

Officials are trying to learn more about local spawning habitat for massive lake sturgeon, and searching for new locations where the activity is catching on.

Fewer than 250 Atlantic sturgeon spawn in the Delaware River, she noted.

are concerned about the Atlantic sturgeon, which spends much of its life in the Atlantic Ocean but travels up rivers on the eastern seaboard to spawn. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

“The state knows that their commercial fisheries are capturing Atlantic sturgeon by accident.” Riverkeeper cites scientific research showing that juvenile sturgeon spawn in the Hudson ...

Fewer than 250 Atlantic sturgeon spawn in the Delaware River, she noted. Thomas C. Zambito is a reporter on The USA Today Network's New York State Team covering transportation, energy and the ...