Tribal Hatchery Raises Sturgeon As Numbers Dwindle in Idaho
The Columbian › March 22, 2006
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BOISE, Idaho Each year, endangered white sturgeon lay millions of fertilized eggs on the silty bed of the Kootenai River in northern Idaho in vain.
The white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, has not successfully reproduced in the Kootenai since Libby Dam was completed in Montana in 1974, reducing the river velocity and trapping critical nutrients upstream.See the full content of this document
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Tribal Hatchery Raises Sturgeon As Numbers Dwindle in Idaho
Downstream, however, pools at a hatchery run by the Kootenai Indian Tribe teem with thousands of year-old sturgeon, inch-long miniatures of the two armor-pla...
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