Decades of recovery efforts are bringing one of the Missouri's endangered and longest-living fish back to prominence ...

Missouri anglers are seeing lake sturgeon more often. The endangered prehistoric fish species is native to the Show-Me State.

Illinois DNR has asked anglers who catch a lake sturgeon to take a quick picture with location information and numbers from ...

lake sturgeon once thrived in the Missouri River before being driven to the brink of extinction by overfishing and habitat loss in the late 1800s, to the point where the fish was deemed incapable ...