Tracking fragile sturgeon in Delaware Bay| NJ Spotlight News
Credit: (Mauro Orlando from Flickr; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Atlantic sturgeon This spring marks a decade since New Jersey’s Bureau of Marine Fisheries first deployed acoustic receivers to track the migratory patterns of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon in the Delaware Bay. For the researchers tasked with monitoring this fragile, prehistoric fish species, the past 10 years have been an exercise in hope — and occasional surprise. “There are signs that the population has started a slow recovery,” said Brian Neilan, a senior fisheries biologist who leads the monitoring program for the bureau. ...
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