Releasing Pallid Sturgeon

A sitting in a boat holds a fish with both hands preparing to place it back in the water.

Photo By/Credit

Jennifer Johnson/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

12/02/2021

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

Staff release recently telemetry tagged pallid back into the Missouri River to begin it's 3-4 years of tracking it movement.

Facility

Great Plains Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office

Species

Scaphirhynchus albus

Subject tags

Aquatic animals

Endangered and/or Threatened species

Fisheries management

Freshwater fish

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