This long-term monitoring program hopes to help in determining distribution, abundance, population dynamics, and recruitment trends. Marys River for Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon. The completion of the 2023 sampling season represents the 8th year the FWCO has sampled the St. Marys River Restoration Committee was formed and the Peninsular Florida FWCO, working with University of Georgia researchers, began working on the River conducting gill net surveys and sonar-based habitat assessments. To further look into these questions a St. Image Details Peninsular Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office Fish biologist Cedric Doolittle and Fish and Aquatic Conservation Knauss Fellow and biologist Alex Troutman showing bycatch longnose gar caught during sturgeon sampling, St. Marys? Were the fish captured migrating in from a different river system or were these fish from the original St. Although many questions had yet been answered, like what is the current population status of both species? Where is and what is the availability of critical spawning habitat in the St. Marys River sturgeon populations fueled surveys in the early 2000’s in which small numbers of sturgeon were collected, pointing to possible extant populations. Marys River suggested that the Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon populations had been extirpated. In the mid-1990s a limited survey on the St. Marys Rivers declining to near zero levels. Although years of over-harvesting, habitat loss, dredging, and impeded access to suitable spawning grounds due to dams and impoundments have resulted in range wide population declines with populations in the St. A river system that historically hosted spawning populations of both species. Marys is the second-most southern river in the Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon’s range. The historic range of the Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons extends from the St. Image Details Peninsular Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office Fish Biologist Cedric Doolittle releasing an Atlantic sturgeon after sampling, St.
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