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Old 08-04-2010, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by walking buffalo View Post


IMO, the study is young, and the data is not sufficient to confidently estimate the population of sturgeon. The reason for putting sturgeon on catch and release fishing only was a safety measure until we knew more about them and their numbers. If sufficiently funded, in a few years, this monitoring program will have the a much better grasp of sturgeon populations, and how to manage them into the future.
There has been a tagging program that started almost 20 years ago in the early 90's... Alot of the legwork being done by volunteers...
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