![]() Marys River Management Committee, a panel where local governments and residents from both states talk about river issues. "I think it's a great idea," said Dean Woehrle, who lives near the river in Boulogne and co-chairs the St. The idea of bringing back the fish has sparked some local interest. Marys.īut researchers' discovery this winter of one Atlantic sturgeon and one shortnose sturgeon - netted after nearly 1,500 hours of field work - has added to scientists' curiosity about the blackwater channel that flows from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to the ocean. They may not even try to put the fish back, and would face difficult conditions in at least part of the St. His office is part of a collection of federal and state agencies and nonprofit groups that have discussed restoring sturgeon for several years. Fish and Wildlife Service in Jacksonville. It's not like there's going to be fish going in there tomorrow," said Heath Rauschenberger, an ecologist at the U.S. "We're trying to be real careful and real thoughtful about it. Marys on the state border intrigued government scientists who thought its mostly undeveloped reaches might be a place to rebuild a population shrunken by water pollution and commercial fishing 120 million years after sturgeon evolved. ![]() Johns River, the fish hasn't been seen there in generations and has lost territory from the Southeast to New England.īut the deep, winding St. The Atlantic sturgeon, a jumping, armored fish that can grow up to 14 feet long, has dwindled along the East Coast to the point that federal agencies are considering labeling it an endangered species. Marys River, scientists are wondering whether they can bring it back. Decades after one of the planet's oldest fish vanished from the St.
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