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After years of declining populations, five populations of Atlantic Sturgeon have been officially declared endangered under the Endangered Species Act; a sixth segment has been declared “threatened.”
It’s been a long road to endangered status for the slow-moving, long lived species. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that there were some 180,000 adult female spawning sturgeon in 1890 in the Delaware River alone; most recently that figure has dropped to fewer than 300.
NOAA determined that stocks were historically low in 2007, so it was petitioned to declare the Atlantic sturgeon endangered in 2009. The agency sought public comment in 2010, and after examining data and additional information submitted, the species has now been listed as endangered.
While fishing for the sturgeon has been banned for more than a decade, the endangered status gives the species a fuller protection, including a prohibition against any kind of ‘take,’ which includes “harassing, harming, pursuing, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting.”
The US Fish and Wildlife Service lists 77 endangered and 68 threatened species of fish in the U.S.. Worldwide, fish stocks have experienced a dramatic decline, decimated by overfishing, habitat destruction and pollution.
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+ add your ownWhen are governments going to stop letting this type of atrocity happen?
@William Y.
there are some people who pick and choose what they love. they may say "save the _________ because they are beautiful" some even say stuff like "______ are ugly, but _____ are so cute, same those insted" some would rather save wolves than rinocerus because they don't find the rino pretty enough.
"who cares about stupid ugly (reptile here) save the wolf it's beautiful!"
people screen capture those.
magestic, noble, beautiful. buzzwords to protect something. how many times have you seen pro-horse thinking that did not include those? how many times have one just seen "is nessesary for the ecosystem" on something people might not like?
"how could people kill the _________s? they are so (positive ajictives about aesticly pleasing animals with relatable traits)
not to many will say that about an aye-aye or almiqui
Jane W. they cut them open for caviar.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JwTvDWpU4xI/TGHDPT-hNtI/AAAAAAAAChQ/OJXN0SwgEXM/s1600/Beluga+Sturgeon+02.jpg
the Beluga Sturgon is famous, and the brand using the name.
it is just hard to get attintion. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Acipenser_transmontanus.jpg/300px-Acipenser_transmontanus.jpg putting "please save me" on that photo
or http://www.flickr.com/photos/epyonmx/3875520895/ "how could you hurt me"
now try it with a wolf pup, or cub of something.
here is the atlantic
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u12/Back-Legger686/AtlanticSturgeon45lb.jpg
"this is evil"
now, put "this is evil" with a hunter and his dead canine
hope that human kind will repent and stop destroy our precious habitat
So sad :(
Illegal caviar collection kills untold numbers of sturgeon- please boycott stupid "luxury" foods like caviar, foie gras, and veal- animals suffering for ridiculous food fetishes...
:/ never heard of that fish, but sad, we shouldn't over fish so much
What is sturgeon being fished for?
Its sad that we have allowed nature's creatures come to this point.
I wish people would go extinct and leave Mother Earth to the animals.
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