Fisheries staff from Vermont Fish & Wildlife received a pleasant surprise recently while completing survey work on Lake Champlain in the form of a 48-year-old lake sturgeon that biologists first studied and tagged nearly two decades ago. “We first saw […]
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2015 lake sturgeon sampling yields encouraging results
Vermont Fish & Wildlife photo Jon Kimball and Chet MacKenzie of Vermont Fish & Wildlife with a lake sturgeon captured and released in the Winooski River in May. Record number of sturgeon collected, tagged in Lake Champlain tributaries RUTLAND—Fisheries staff […]
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Anglers reminded of lake sturgeon protection and state law
Vermont Fish & Wildlife photo Fisheries biologist Chet MacKenzie from Vermont Fish & Wildlife with a lake sturgeon captured and released this spring in the Winooski River. RUTLAND – The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is reminding anglers of the […]