ALTON, Ill. – A new livestream camera, documenting ancient lake sturgeons below the Mel Price Lock and Dam in Alton, Illinois, has gone live. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) ...

An angler in Missouri recently reeled in something you don't see every day — a lake sturgeon. Troy Staggs caught the elusive fish, according to the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. While Staggs was ...

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – An endangered fish that dates to the dinosaur days is making a recovery locally. In West Alton, just below the Melvin Price Locks and Dam, volunteers confirmed Monday, April ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. — A fish that once thrived for 150 million years was driven to the "brink of extinction." It's undergoing a slow, but sure, comeback. "Lake sturgeon were declared endangered in the ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Decades of recovery efforts are bringing one of the Missouri's endangered and longest-living fish back to prominence according to new findings this spring. Capable ...

Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Technician Rylee Carley transfers a subadult lake sturgeon into a holding tank on Wednesday, April 17, 2025, on the Mississippi River in Winfield. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a heartening sign of ecological recovery, a recent report by 5 On Your Side showed the resurgence of a prehistoric fish, once ...

On a cool October morning, members of the St. Croix Chippewa Tribe gathered at the Clam Lake boat landing in northern Wisconsin, carrying five-gallon buckets of small, wriggling lake sturgeon. After a ...

"I feel pretty comfortable saying that lake sturgeon can live to be 400 years old," a DNR fisheries manager said.