Congressmen reintroduce SPEAR Act, a bill intended to keep the lake sturgeon in Wisconsin from protections of the federal ...

The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs up the northeast side of the metro area.

More:What is Wisconsin's most important fish? A good case could be made for the lake sturgeon. The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs ...

On Feb. 9, 12-year-old Kolby Worth successfully speared his first fish on the upriver lakes with a 21.1-pound, 47.5-inch male ...

More than a century has passed since the St. Louis River teemed with lake sturgeon, the largest of all Great Lakes fish and ...

More:What is Wisconsin's most important fish? A good case could be made for the lake sturgeon. The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs ...

Sturgeon spearing will kick off its 2025 season in Wisconsin Feb. 8. Here's what to know about this year's regulations and ...

Donnie Herman of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wrangles a sturgeon into a net on the Wolf River beneath the dam in Shawano in 2019. The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining ...

The 2025 sturgeon spearing season in northeast Wisconsin is underway, and while water clarity has been a major challenge, ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is preparing for the sturgeon spearing season, which open on the Winnebago System on Saturday, Feb. 8. With one of the largest lake ...

As fish stories go, this one is hard to beat. An ancient gentle giant of the seas presumed to be headed for extinction a little more than a century ago. Almost all 27 of its species to this day on ...