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Wisconsin Sturgeon Spawning Underway
We have been getting reports of sturgeon spawning on the Fox and Wolf River. We anticipate spawning to be in full swing in the Wolf River system through the weekend, unless colder temperatures halt spawning activities and cause a more protracted spawning period.
On Wednesday evening, sturgeon started spawning at Sturgeon Trail in New London and yesterday crews saw fish heavily spawning there. Bamboo Bend had some slight spawning activity yesterday evening but will likely have heavy spawning activity today.
These two locations will have spawning fish into the weekend and will likely be the best locations to view sturgeon for the next couple of days.

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In late March, Gov. Mike Dunleavy threw down a rhetorical gauntlet, announcing that after more than 60 years of statehood, Alaska is exercising its right to manage all navigable waterways in the state — including those that flow through federal land. It’s a gambit that’s backed by recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and although its impact for ordinary Alaskans is mostly symbolic, it may wake federal authorities up to unfulfilled promises made to the state decades ago.
The assertion that Alaska can manage all navigable waterways in the state, as well as the lands underneath them, has its roots in recent Supreme Court case law — in particular, the John Sturgeon case. The court’s unanimous 2019 ruling established that the state has those management rights even for rivers that pass through federal lands. Fortunately, that ruling threaded a needle in preserving another landmark decision important to Alaska — the Katie John decision, which found that land management rights aside, the National Parks Service has the right to regulate subsistence fishing. Based on that decision, authorities have prioritized the use of fish by those who live along the rivers and rely on the fish in them to survive. Sturgeon and the Alaska Federation of Natives found common cause in seeking a management solution that kept subsistence rights intact — and, fortunately, the Supreme Court found those goals compatible under the Alaska National Interest Land Claims Act.

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April 2, 2021
GLASGOW: The former leader of Britain First is standing for election in the same constituency as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
Jayda Fransen was confirmed as an independent candidate in Glasgow Southside when nominations closed on Wednesday.
Fransen had announced earlier this year that she planned to stand against the “SNP commie, Marxists, naughty people”. Although a member of the British Freedom Party, documents from Glasgow City Council show Fransen will be running as an independent.
She has previously been convicted of a number of religiously-aggravated crimes, including harassment in both 2016 and 2018 – the latter of which saw her sentenced to 36 weeks in prison.

The remains of an Atlantic sturgeon measuring just over five feet long was found in the salt marsh at the Jones Conservation Lands.
COURTESY JIM PARKER
When Jim Parker went to the salt marsh on Spring Hill Road, he was expecting to find signs of migrating birds.
Instead, he found the remains of a rare Atlantic sturgeon—an endangered sea creature considered to be a living fossil.
Mr. Parker said that it was found on Sunday, March 25, in the Jones Conservation Lands, a considerable distance from the shore.
“That marsh is subject to tidal flooding, especially during a full moon,” Mr. Parker said. “I had thought that it may have been swimming in the flooded marsh and got beached as the tide water receded.”

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attends First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain March 18, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon denied on Thursday that she had misled a parliamentary committee investigating her handling of sexual harassment claims against her predecessor, saying that she stood by her evidence.
“The First Minister told the truth to the committee in eight hours of evidence, and stands by that evidence,” a spokesman for Sturgeon said in response to a report from Sky News that said the committee had concluded Sturgeon had misled it.

Sturgeon reveals relaxation of Covid rules in April
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March 17, 2021
EDINBURGH: The coronavirus stay-at-home order will be lifted in Scotland on April 2, with travel restrictions removed entirely from April 26, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament, the First Minister announced that hairdressers and some additional non-essential shops such as garden centres can open from April 5. From April 26, current rules banning people from leaving their council areas will be removed, with plans to allow journeys to other parts of the UK on the same date.
Non-essential shops, libraries, museums, galleries and gyms will also reopen from April 26, and six people from up to three households will be able to meet outdoors. Beer gardens will also be able to open from that date, the First Minister said.

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The First Minister previously warned Mr Johnson that she could go rogue and deliver independence in the face of his opposition. One of her most salient messages came on Brexit Day as millions of Scots watched as their country - which voted to Remain - parted with Brussels. There, she mimicked Michelle Obama to hammer home her plans.

Isaac Sturgeon, of Montana, is charged with seven counts including shoving a barricade into officers.

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The First Minister has used the coronavirus pandemic to transform Scotland into an independent "state" rather than a country in the UK, Express.co.uk has been told. It comes as Ms Sturgeon said Scotland's objective must be "to eliminate" coronavirus. She warned that "the virus won't play ball" with any effort to maintain numbers at a "medium level".

Scotland had previously aimed to relax the rules on outdoor mixing on March 15, but Sturgeon has now sped up that timetable, reports Xinhua news agency.

The arrogance of white people never ceases to amaze me.
You’d think I’d be over it by now, after seeing people who are charged with violently attacking the U.S. government in the name of Trump and white supremacy get permission to vacation in Mexico and the privilege of being served organic food in jail on the basis of their appropriation of indigenous religious practices.
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But I confess to still being taken aback by CNBC’s report that one of the suspected Capitol insurrectionists, 32-year-old Isaac Sturgeon, flew all the way to Kenya after allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 white supremacist mob attack right here in the USA.

The arrogance of white people never ceases to amaze me.

Isaac Sturgeon, of Montana, is charged with seven counts including shoving a barricade into officers.

EDINBURGH: Nicola Sturgeon has refused to be drawn on whether a second Scottish independence referendum could be held in 2021 — despite the SNP Westminster leader indicating that such a vote...

THE BBC has received hundreds of complaints accusing Nicola Sturgeon of using Scottish Government coronavirus briefings to attack political rivals.

Alex Salmond appeared before the Salmond Inquiry last month (Image: GETTY)
Scots go to the polls in May to elect the next Scottish Parliament.
The SNP are demanding a second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK, after losing the first vote in 2014.
Ms Sturgeon said: “This is about democracy and the ability of the people of Scotland to decide their future.”
Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, has suggested there could be another public vote “as early as late 2021”.
Boris Johnson has vowed to block any second referendum on breaking up Britain (Image: EXPRESS )
He added a referendum should take place “as quick as is practically possible”.

EDINBURGH: Nicola Sturgeon has insisted “I would never have wanted to ‘get’ Alex Salmond”, as she told a Holyrood committee she had “no motive, intention, ...

ALL children in primary four to seven in Scotland will return to school full-time from 15 March, first minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed. She gave the update to the Scottish Parliament this afternoon (Tuesday). Primary one to three are already back in school as part of a...

EDINBURGH: Nicola Sturgeon should stand down if she is found to have breached the ministerial code, new Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said.The First Minister is the focus of an...

EDINBURGH: Alex Salmond has said there is a failure of leadership in Scotland as he attacked Nicola Sturgeon and claimed there has been a “calculated and deliberate suppression of key...

EDINBURGH: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she would be “making it up” if she gave a specific date for the end of Covid-19 restrictions.Speaking at the coronavirus briefing here...

“Now Scotland”: Pseudo-left groups form new alliance with nationalist hardliners
Hardline Scottish nationalists and sections of the Scottish pseudo-left have formed “Now Scotland”, described as a “grassroots, non-party campaign”.
The new formation emerged from the All Under One Banner (AUOB) collection of Saltire-waving demonstrators who, pre-lockdown, held monthly marches in favour of an immediate second referendum on Scottish independence. A series of online meetings last year resulted in the group forming “Yes Alba”, before ditching the name in favour of “Now Scotland” so as not to offend Gaelic language activists.
The new organisation is an adjunct of the most pro-independence faction of the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP). Its purpose is to emulate the Yes Scotland alliance of the SNP, Scottish Greens and the pseudo-left Scottish Socialist Party, which mobilised nationalist campaigners prior to the 2014 Scottish referendum. Scottish elections are due this year. The SNP is committed to tabling legislation for a new referendum should it win a majority.