On July 9, 1983, Joey Pallotta of Crockett, California caught the world record white sturgeon weighing 468 pounds while fishing from his boat in San Pablo Bay in Contra Costa County. His epic catch ...

A female sturgeon captured by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tagged to document movement in the San Joaquin River Basin. April 17, 2024 (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Bay City News) After over 100 ...

New protections for white sturgeon may impact farm water supplies and increase costs for local water agencies. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo) California’s effort to protect an ...

(CDFW) that’s expected to take at least a year to complete. In the meantime, once the state’s Office of Administrative Law publishes the action, white sturgeon will be provisionally protected under ...

PITTSBURG − Striped bass fishing has been outstanding on the west bank of the Sacramento River below Rio Vista for live bait drifters and spoon enthusiasts, while sturgeon fishing has been superb ...

Killed by algae blooms and dwindling from dams and droughts, the largest freshwater fish in North America is at risk in California. Now, wildlife officials have taken the first major step toward ...

Dead white sturgeon have been spotted floating in the Columbia River as water has warmed to higher than the historic summer average. The Washington state and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake.

This is a tale of two fishermen—and their timeless lesson, to boot. The first of them was a biologist: tall, strapping, and a keen student of all fish. An angler, through and through. There was hardly ...

White sturgeon are one of the iconic animals of Hells Canyon and they are in trouble. The population in the 137 miles of the ...

Last week, the California Fish and Game Commission moved to list white sturgeon under the Golden State’s Endangered Species Act. The action kicks off a review process by the California Department of ...