RE: NANFA-- Gulf sturgeon, paddlefish

Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS (HOOVERJ_at_wes.army.mil)
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:03:01 -0600

Two recent article of possible interest:

Forsythe, SW. 2001. "Working the sturge." Endangered species bulletin
26(1)[for September]: 36-37. [First-person account of Gulf sturgeon
collecting trip by USFWS personnel]

USFWS, 2001. U.S. hooks smugglers. The River Packet - Newsletter [now a
magazine] of the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Fall 2001,
p. 5 [Story about a multimillion dollar caviar scam - paddlefish and
shovelnose sturgeon eggs were being marketed as Russian sevruga caviar ]


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