Fish Need to Move! Learning About Fish Migration - Atlantic sturgeon

People used to catch me for my delicious meat and eggs, which were sold as a gourmet food called caviar.  There was a very large commercial fishery for me in the 1880’s. Fishing continued into the 1950’s but by the 1990s many states no longer allowed fishing.  Decades of pollution, overfishing and damming of rivers, which prevented us from reaching our home spawning grounds and eliminated a lot of our good nursery habitat, caused our numbers in the wild to become very low.