The European Training Network RIBES “River flow regulation, fish BEhaviour and Status”, funded by the European Commission under the EU Horizon 2020 programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (Grant no. 860800), announces 15 positions for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) giving the opportunity of being awarded a Doctoral Degree, with innovative complementary training activities and attractive travel, laboratory and research...

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The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) was last recorded by researchers in 2003. Subsequent local surveys failed to spot any individual. A new study based on a comprehensive large-scale survey in 2017 and 2018 and statistical analysis of previous records suggest that the species most likely went functionally extinct by 1993 and completely extinct by 2010. There’s always the possibility that individuals of a species declared extinct still su...

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The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention, WSCS and WWF will be co-hosting a side event on sturgeon conservation on Dec 3rd. See more

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A Summary Report on the major issues addressed at ISS8 (8thInternational Symposium on Sturgeons) is available in the Past Conferences section    

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  The International Conference "Conservation of Danube Sturgeons - a challenge or a burden"    The International Conference "Conservation of Danube Sturgeons - a challenge or a burden"  was jointly organized by “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati(Research and Development Center for Sturgeon, Aquatic Habitats and Biodiversity), the DSTF(Danube Sturgeon Task Force), the Romanian Ministry of Water and Forests, the Romanian Ministry of Environme...

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  Release of sturgeon of different age in the Kuban River   In 2019, the State Regional Centre of Sturgeon Gene Pool Conservation “Kubanbioresursi” (Krasnodar, Russia) made another step towards the rehabilitation of sturgeon populations in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea basin. For the resumption of natural spawning for release 2019, individuals of five annual sturgeon classes born from 2019 to 2014, with weight ranged from 2.7 g to 3.6 kg had ...

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Election of the Board of Directors of WSCS (2019-2022) The deadline for members to participate in the election of the new Board of Directors of WSCS (2019-2022) was set to the end of February, and the counting of the results was made during the interim Meetings at the beginning of April (7-8) in Oggebbio, Italy. According to the Statutes the newly elected Board will take office around six week thereafter to allow to complete the legal registra...

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A 3 years PhD position will be available on sturgeon conservation genomics starting from October, with application deadline in May.   PhD scholarship for a project on sturgeon conservation. A PhD position in Evolutionary Biology will be available ad the Department of Biology of the University of Padova, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Leonardo Congiu.The project is part of a larger project conducted by 4 Italian Universities with a big e...

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Jeremy Wade, host River Monsters, invites you to join World Fish Migration Day 2020.   Dear colleague,   Jeremy Wade, host River Monsters, invites you to join the next World Fish Migration Day on May 16, 2020.  We hope that you like the new Love Flows campaign and that it inspires you to host an unique event to connect fish, rivers and people. Over 3000 organizations, from New Zealand to Hawaii, will be involved in this fourth edition of ...

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Saving 200 pounds beluga from poachers (PICTURES AND VIDEO)Inspectors from the Executive Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture (NAFA) seized today poachers who took out 200-kg beluga from the water in the Silistra region. The fish is alive and released back into the waters of the Danube, and the case is being searched, the agency said.The NAFA recalled that the prohibition of fishing in the Danube and Black Sea waters of sturgeon fish (Russian st...

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WWF international and TRAFFIC released a report on corruption in caviar trade:  a good overview and building step for further steps.   Go to the doc

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Request for Nominations for: The 2020 International Fisheries Science Prize The International Fisheries Section of the American Fisheries Society is requesting nominations for the International Fisheries Science Prize (IFSP). The IFSP honors an individual for his or her contribution to global fisheries science and/or conservation and is presented once every four years at the congress of the World Council of Fisheries Societies. The Prize wi...

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On 30 November 2018 the Standing Committee of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) at its 38th meeting adopted the recommendation Contracting Parties to the Convention and invited Observer States to fully implement all measures included in the Pan-European Action Plan for sturgeons [document T-PVS/Inf(2018)6]. Furthermore, it mandated the Secretariat of the Bern Convention to closely monit...

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AT II GLOBAL FISHERY FORUM IN SAINT-PETERSBURG PRIZES WAS AWARDED TO WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION "THE BEST FISH PRODUCT - 2018" The 2nd Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia, the Russian fishery sector’s key event, has concluded in St. Petersburg. Leading businesspersons, members of fisheries organizations, heads of sectoral agencies from around the world have assembled at the Forum that has become a crucial venue for discussions in the ...

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Patrick Williot The sturgeon world has lost an outstanding character with one of its most influential and determined members by November 25th2018. Patrick was a thoroughbred scientist with a strong background in aquaculture. Being born 21/05/1946, he received his Diploma of Engineer in agronomy (ENSA Nancy) in 1970. In the first two years of scientific practice he was at the Institute of research in tropical agronomy (Senegal), as head of the bi...

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A sampling campaign was realised in October 2018 in the Gironde estuary. Several specimens of Acipenser sturio were caught. The largest was 171 cm (TL) and 35 kg and in one picture we notice a data storage tag fixed on the back. The 4 other A. sturio  were between 126 and 141 cm (TL) and weighted between 10,4 and 18,7 kg. In one of the pictures the technician was using an echography probe to assess the development stage of the individual. Anothe...

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In period 17-24 September 2018 at Sf. Gheorghe, Romania was held the First Edition of the International Workshop ”Danube Sturgeon, where to go?”. It was a very productive week, spent among the sturgeon specialists, a week in which we made steps in the right direction for Danube Sturgeons conservation. The main conclusion of this workshop was that the clear measures are needed to protect and save these species and also a "live gene bank" for the c...

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The Yangtze River Research Institute supports the rescue action of Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus) The launch ceremony of the "RescueAction Plan of Dabry's sturgeon " with the theme of "Catch a great protection, save the Dabry's sturgeon " and the restocking activities were held in Yibin, Sichuan province on May 17, 2018. The Yangtze River fisheries research institute is the co-organizer of this activity. About 400 people including the M...

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The North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Society (NASPS) and the German Society to Save the Sturgeon (GRS) are pleased to announce the NASPS-GRS Student Mentor Collaboration Award.  The purpose of this award is to support establishment of a collaboration between a graduate student working on sturgeon or paddlefish research and a sturgeon or paddlefish researcher or manager to transfer technology, training, and/or aid in the completion of the st...

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