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Agents discover Lake Sturgeon in state's waters
www.rod-fly-fishing2.com Agents discover Lake Sturgeon in state's waters By Margaret Slayton News-Press Now Sep 3, 2017 ( 0 ) Buy Now Agents discover Lake Sturgeon in state's waters University of Missouri student Michael Moore surgically implants a transmitter into a Lake Sturgeon while research assistant Brandon Brooke maintains care of the fish. Results from the research indicate the fish can swim hundreds of miles in Missouri’s waterways. Submitted photo Fisheries biologists from the Missouri Department of Conservation have discovered Lake Sturgeon are once again swimming hundreds of miles through the state’s waterways. Lake Sturgeon were once common in the state’s rivers, but by the 1970s overharvest and changes to the rivers caused their numbers to plummet. The conservation department listed the species as a state endangered fish in 1974 and banned its harvest. Since 1984, the state agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic