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Green sturgeon gains habitat protection from Monterey Bay to Canadian border

Posted by: Maven on October 9, 2009 at 7:26 am

From the Center for Biological Diversity:

“The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that areas of river, estuarine, bay, and coastal marine habitats in California, Oregon, and Washington will be protected as critical habitat for the southern population of the green sturgeon, an imperiled migratory fish that has survived since the Pleistocene. The critical habitat designation, to be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register, is a result of a 2007 settlement agreement arising out of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to secure critical habitat.

“One of our largest and rarest freshwater fish will now have the habitat protection it needs for conservation and recovery,” said Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. ”Recent surveys have shown some of the lowest recorded numbers of spawning green sturgeon in the Sacramento River. With so few sturgeon left, and the San Francisco Bay-Delta food web they depend upon unraveling, we are pleased to see critical habitat designated for this ancient fish.” …”

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October 9, 2009 · Filed Under Wildlife & Endangered Species

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