SPEAR Act would prevent sturgeon in Wisconsin from being placed under protections of Endangered Species Act
Tony Wied (8th Congressional District) and co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Glenn Grothman (6th Congressional District) and Tom ...
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For the First Time in Years, It Looks Like Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Season Drama-Free
It’ll be good ice and no fishy business this year.
What is Wisconsin's most important fish? A good case could be made for the lake sturgeon.
A combination of water resources and dedicated people have succeeded in helping lake sturgeon thrive while they have failed ...
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Lake sturgeon
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 ...
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First day of sturgeon spearing nets 169 sturgeon, including the 4th-largest on the Winnebago system
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 ...
No sturgeon have spawned in the MIlwaukee River since 1843. Now, they may return. How?
The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs up the northeast side of ...
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169 sturgeon speared throughout Lake Winnebago system on 2025 opening day
(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.
'It's like a ghost town out there': Warm temperatures deter most sturgeon spearers from going on the ice opening day
Thin ice, safety warnings and a small harvest marked opening day of the 2024 sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago ...
Sturgeon fishing, shivaree return to Northern Michigan's Black Lake this weekend
Jay Woiderski, president of the Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that works to conserve ...
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What is Wisconsin's most important fish? A good case could be made for the lake sturgeon.
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 ...