Congressmen reintroduce SPEAR Act, a bill intended to keep the lake sturgeon in Wisconsin from protections of the federal ...
A combination of water resources and dedicated people have succeeded in helping lake sturgeon thrive while they have failed ...
In recent years, the species has made somewhat of a comeback. Tighter fishing regulations in the Great Lakes has helped, with annual harvest limits strictly enforced. Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago ...
The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs up the northeast side of ...
the F4 female is officially the 4th largest ever speared on the Lake Winnebago system. We spoke with Herzig about what the catch means to her. “At first I was told that it was a small fish, it ...
(WLUK) -- Opening day of sturgeon spearing season proved successful for dozens of anglers on Saturday, with a total of 169 speared between Lake Winnebago ... a total of 53 fish.
Thin ice, safety warnings and a small harvest marked opening day of the 2024 sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago ...
However, the fish were extirpated ... Fortunately, the species fared much better in other parts of the Upper Midwest, including Lake Winnebago in central Wisconsin, where the population was ...
Almost all 27 of its species to this day on the ... In fact, Gordon Priegel, DNR fish manager in Oshkosh who worked on Lake Winnebago issues from 1959 to 1970, used pencil calculations and ...