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White sturgeon also play a role in sport fishing in the Pacific Northwest, while closed to retention in the Columbia River Basin, catch and release fishing is allowed, with enough popularity for guiding services to offer fishing trips targeted specifically at white sturgeon.
White sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in North America. They look prehistoric, with bony, dinosaur-esque scales called scutes, and they get huge — some grow longer than 10 feet, and ...
The poachers had harvested 1.65 tons of caviar from nearly 2,000 white sturgeon that were poached from the Columbia River. The caviar was estimated to be worth around $2 million. WDFW busted another ring in 2003, and conducted an undercover sting operation in 2006–2007 that resulted in 17 successful attempts out of a total of 19. [49]
The Bonneville Dam blocked the migration of white sturgeon to their upstream spawning areas. Sturgeon still spawn in the area below the dam, and the lower Columbia River supports a healthy sturgeon population. Small, very depressed populations of white sturgeon persist in the various reservoirs upstream.
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The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ... White sturgeon, ... Other Columbia Basin dams that have been removed include Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River, ...
A Salem man served jail time and owes thousands in fines for poaching a giant white sturgeon and four oversized sturgeon in Scappoose Bay in 2022. ... served 20 days in the Columbia County jail ...