Undercover Agents Bust Sturgeon Poachers in MN
Six men killed hundreds of protected sturgeon in the Mississippi River and sold the valuable caviar on the black market.
Source: fieldandstream.com
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Six men killed hundreds of protected sturgeon in the Mississippi River and sold the valuable caviar on the black market.
A group of six men is responsible for poaching more than 250 shovelnose sturgeon from the Mississippi River.
Six men are accused of catching dozens of shovelnose sturgeons from the Mississippi River in 2021 near Reno in Houston County, and of using multiple fishing lines, harvesting the roe (eggs) and often discarding the fish bodies back into the river. It's suspected the roe is sold as caviar.