Pembina river and sturgeon

[lunkerslayer]

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/10/16/s...iver-first-time-ndgfs-history/?outputType=amp
I remember old black and white pictures from a book that was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of walhalla nd. In the book was a picture of a fishermen who caught a massive sturgeon out of the Pembina River. It's still interesting if these sturgeon will survive to adults and for that matter reproduce.

 

[riverview]

ive seen pictures of sturgeon hung from a horse drawn wagon that were over 6 feet long taken out of the red river by pembina

 

[Bfishn]

What the heck, that's pretty cool actually, I didn't realize we had lake sturgeon in ND. Crazy that those giant lake sturgeon were native in the Pembina and Red but then the Missouri has pallid and shovelnose.

Looks like they started putting them back in the Red in the 90's, has anybody ever heard of one being caught?

https://news.prairiepublic.org/show.../2022-05-30/sturgeon-fishing-in-the-red-river

 

[Rowdie]

What the heck, that's pretty cool actually, I didn't realize we had lake sturgeon in ND. Crazy that those giant lake sturgeon were native in the Pembina and Red but then the Missouri has pallid and shovelnose.

Looks like they started putting them back in the Red in the 90's, has anybody ever heard of one being caught?

https://news.prairiepublic.org/show.../2022-05-30/sturgeon-fishing-in-the-red-river

And this is why projects like the Garrison diversion projects are a BAD IDEA.

How could you possibly think linking two different water systems that flow to different oceans is a good idea?

 

[zoops]

What the heck, that's pretty cool actually, I didn't realize we had lake sturgeon in ND. Crazy that those giant lake sturgeon were native in the Pembina and Red but then the Missouri has pallid and shovelnose.

Looks like they started putting them back in the Red in the 90's, has anybody ever heard of one being caught?

https://news.prairiepublic.org/show.../2022-05-30/sturgeon-fishing-in-the-red-river

They've become pretty common in the Ottertail watershed. See them jumping all the time on OT lake and have caught a few in the last 10 years.

 

[lunkerslayer]

And this is why projects like the Garrison diversion projects are a BAD IDEA.

How could you possibly think linking two different water systems that flow to different oceans is a good idea?

The water from the missouri river is going to be treated before it ends up in the red river. Regardless environmentalist have proposed tearing down and restoring areas that were effected by a hydro electric dam especially along the western sea board. Instead of updating the old dams they are being removed and allowing the river to flow freely again.

 

[Allen]

What the heck, that's pretty cool actually, I didn't realize we had lake sturgeon in ND. Crazy that those giant lake sturgeon were native in the Pembina and Red but then the Missouri has pallid and shovelnose.

Looks like they started putting them back in the Red in the 90's, has anybody ever heard of one being caught?

https://news.prairiepublic.org/show.../2022-05-30/sturgeon-fishing-in-the-red-river

I only caught one, but there were a number of lake sturgeon caught in the Grand Forks reach of the Red in the late 90s.

 

[Allen]

The water from the missouri river is going to be treated before it ends up in the red river. Regardless environmentalist have proposed tearing down and restoring areas that were effected by a hydro electric dam especially along the western sea board. Instead of updating the old dams they are being removed and allowing the river to flow freely again.

This is being done to specifically help salmon populations.