On July 9, 1983, Joey Pallotta of Crockett, California caught the world record white sturgeon weighing 468 pounds while fishing from his boat in San Pablo Bay in Contra Costa County. His epic catch ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the banks of British Columbia’s Fraser River, this expedition seeks out the elusive white sturgeon—an ancient fish species ...

Killed by algae blooms and dwindling from dams and droughts, the largest freshwater fish in North America is at risk in California. Now, wildlife officials have taken the first major step toward ...

The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...

(CDFW) that’s expected to take at least a year to complete. In the meantime, once the state’s Office of Administrative Law publishes the action, white sturgeon will be provisionally protected under ...

The US state of California is closing the white sturgeon fishery while it conducts a thorough conservation review to determine if the species should be listed as endangered or threatened. This comes ...

PITTSBURG − Striped bass fishing has been outstanding on the west bank of the Sacramento River below Rio Vista for live bait drifters and spoon enthusiasts, while sturgeon fishing has been superb ...

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 ...

Last week, the California Fish and Game Commission moved to list white sturgeon under the Golden State’s Endangered Species Act. The action kicks off a review process by the California Department of ...