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Searching High and Low
By Casey Hickcox and Aaron DeLonay Each spring CSRP biologists evaluate their list of tagged fish and search the river for pallid sturgeon that are expected to spawn. Because sturgeon do not reproduce...
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Adult Reproductive Studies Benefit from Broodstock Collection Effort
Each spring biologists and volunteers from State and Federal agencies cooperate to collect adult pallid sturgeon from the Lower Missouri River for hatchery propagation. Offices from the U.S. Fish and...
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Pallids in the Platte
By Kimberly Chojnacki, Justin Haas (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission), and Aaron DeLonay Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project (CSRP) scientists have documented that some tributaries may have...
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An Incredible Journey
By Kimberly Chojnacki and Aaron DeLonay The scientists of the Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project (CSRP) have known that pallid sturgeon are quite capable of travelling long distances (see previous...
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A Spawning Recorded in the Yellowstone River
By Patrick Braaten Figure 1. Researchers prepare to release pallid sturgeon code 39 following a post-spawn analysis to confirm a successful release of eggs during the spawning event. She was initially...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Sturgeon Research
By Aaron DeLonay, Kimberly Chojnacki, and Casey Hickcox Recently, Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project scientists documented a spawning event in the Yellowstone River when researchers followed a...
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Recapture Efforts Have Begun
By Hallie Ladd, Kim Chojnacki, and Aaron DeLonay Since 2004, the Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project (CSRP) has used telemetry tagging and tracking methods to locate individual sturgeon over long...
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Habitat surveys of 2015 pallid sturgeon spawning patches on the Yellowstone...
By Carrie Elliott, Robb Jacobson, and Casey Hickcox Figure 1. USGS research vessel outfitted with a compact multibeam sonar echosounder system with an inertial motion unit and real time kinematic...
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Remote Technology Monitors Sturgeon Spawning
By Aaron DeLonay, Kimberly Chojnacki and Chad Vishy Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and their partners have been successful in using telemetry to track adult sturgeon to their spawning...
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An update from the field: Preparing for the Yellowstone River spawn
By Pat Braaten We have been tracking the pallid sturgeon research population (see Pallid Sturgeon Spawning Studies in the Yellowstone River Have Begun ) for the past several weeks under elevated flow...
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