(From times-standard.com) – The federal government is proposing to protect hundreds of miles of river and thousands of square miles of ocean to safeguard green sturgeon on the West Coast. The southern population of the ancient fish was found to be threatened with extinction in April of 2006, after environmental groups took the National Marine Fisheries Service to court and won.
Sturgeon to the north of the Eel River and anchoring populations in the Klamath and Trinity were not protected. Many of the areas proposed as critical habitat area are also used by the population of sturgeon north of the Eel River.
(By John Driscoll)