Lower Columbia Sturgeon Managers See ‘Severe Recruitment Concern’ As Keeper Season Again Scrubbed
This will make for the fourth year in a row and seventh of the last 13 that it will be catch-and-release only between Buoy 10 and Bonneville Dam, with managers pointing to a sturgeon population that’s essentially been turned on its head, with more adults and subadults than juveniles. For the first time in their reporting, they use the phrase “severe recruitment concern” to describe the situation.