{"id":543571,"date":"2010-04-26T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:01:22","slug":"lake-sturgeon-population-booming-in-wis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543571","title":{"rendered":"Lake sturgeon population booming in Wis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/23\/national\/a000101D11.DTL#ixzz0lvg3hF5m\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.sfgate.com\/n\/p\/2010\/04\/23\/a8260555-7a08-43e6-a87d-155471e417ae.jpg\" width=\"225\" align=\"right\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/23\/22\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Despite many of its 25 species being endangered, the whisker-snouted  sturgeon is flourishing in upper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ecoregions_of_Wisconsin_%28EPA%29\">Wisconsin<\/a> thanks to strict protection  laws. The state has cracked down on spearing and poaching while boosting  restocking efforts. The well-guarded spring spawning, a popular tourist  attraction, has also helped boost the population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can restore the sturgeon population in the Great Lakes and  manage the current population effectively, then we know we are doing a  pretty good job of managing other aspects of the aquatic community,&#8221;  said state sturgeon expert Ron Bruch.<\/p>\n<p>The spring spawning finished last week and visitors flocked to Lake  Winnebago&#8217;s tributaries to see the fish struggle through shallow water  to lay eggs. The event brings in $350,000 a year to nearby cities.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Winnebago has about 40,000 sturgeons, close to where the  population was in the 1800s. It had dipped to 10,000 in the 1950s, but  conservation efforts brought the population back up. In the Great Lakes  system, there are 156,750, less than 1 percent of the population from  two centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Bruch is concerned that the sturgeon&#8217;s success could pose a  risk. With other areas facing shortages, he thinks poaching incidents  could rise, especially since lake sturgeon caviar is popular. Other  states allow some sturgeon hunting and spearing, but the sale of  domestic lake sturgeon meat and eggs is illegal in the United States  (Carrie Antlfinger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/04\/23\/national\/a000101D11.DTL#ixzz0lvg3hF5m\" >AP\/<em>San  Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a>, April 23). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3307&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3307\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Despite many of its 25 species being endangered, the whisker-snouted sturgeon is flourishing in upper Wisconsin thanks to strict protection laws. The state has cracked down on spearing and poaching while boosting restocking efforts. The well-guarded spring spawning, a popular tourist attraction, has also helped boost the population. &#8220;If we can restore the sturgeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}