But then again, the sturgeon around here do not tend to be quick learners and there have been many instances of the same fish being caught multiple times (as indicated from DNR tagging studies).įor the sake of my angling success, I hope they don’t wisen up anytime soon!
Croix River today is believed to be over 5,000 juvenile and adult fish, although that estimate seems low to me given how many fish I see caught and released in just a small area around the area of Bayport MN, my hometown. Croix River, and has quickly grown into a popular catch and release fishery. Today, sturgeon populations have strongly rebounded in their native range, especially the St.
Humans slowly wisened up during the later part of the 1900s, habitats were slowly restored, commercial fisheries shut down, and conservative recreational harvest regulations implemented. Sturgeon were eliminated from many of their native waters. A giant asteroid crashing into Earth couldn’t wipe them out but humans almost did in the late 1800s and early 1900s through wanton waste, commercial harvest, and habitat degradation. Sturgeon have been roaming waterways of Great Lakes Basin since the height of the dinosaurs a scant 136 million years ago.
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