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CREATURE
FEATURE
CREATURE
FEATURE
Bringing Back a Living Fossil
Conservationists are reintroducing ancient lake sturgeon to southeastern rivers.
by Nancy Henderson
Sixteen years ago, when aquatic
biologists started reintroducing a prehistoric-looking, bony-plated species of fish into
southeastern rivers, puzzled
anglers sent photos to the
state wildlife agencies, asking
for identification.
"The lake sturgeon hadn't
been in the river since the late
'60s, early '70s, and a lot of
people didn't know what they
were," says Dr. Bernie Kuhajda,
an aquatic biologist at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute (TNACI). "Even
before we had an organized
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monitoring program, the first
indication that we were successful in our reintroduction
was from anglers."
Once found naturally in the
Cumberland, Coosa and Tennessee river systems in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, lake sturgeon
by the 1960s were all but gone
due to dams, water pollution
and overfishing for both meat
and caviar. One by one, the
problems were addressed. The
federal government outlawed
commercial harvesting and
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