Protecting Montana’s prehistoric sturgeon a ‘long game’
Nate Jensenis, the aquaculture program supervisor for the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, oversees a white sturgeon hatchery. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
Ecologists describe the sturgeon as a living dinosaur.
The large fish, armored with bony plates, traveled throughout North American waterways for millions of years — their fossil record going back to the time of the tyrannosaurus rex.
Sturgeon are ancient and tough. If they weren’t as old, adapted and developed, they probably would not have continued to survive as time and human impact continue to affect the species’ population and habitat.
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