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Common Name: lake sturgeon
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Trautman (1981); Becker (1983); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993).
Size: 274 cm
Native Range: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basins from Quebec to Alberta and south to Alabama and Louisiana; Coosa River system (Mobile Bay drainage), Alabama and Georgia (Page and Burr 1991).
Means of Introduction: Intentionally stocked.
Status: Unknown.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks:
In 1901, 20,000 lake sturgeon were stocked in the Missisquoi River at Swanton, Vermont (Ravenel 1902). The stocking locality is just upriver from Lake Champlain, its native range. Lake sturgeon are rare throughout most of their range (Becker 1983).
Lake sturgeon also have been introduced into several lakes in Wisconsin including Big Cedar Lake in Washington County, Madison lakes in Dane County, Chain of Lakes in Waupaca County, and Pear Lake in Washburn county, among others (Becker 1983). These locations are also within thier native range (C. Gilbert, pers.comm.).
Becker, G. C. 1983. Fishes of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI.
Etnier, D. A., and W. C. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Trautman, M. B. 1981. The Fishes of Ohio. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 8/2/2005 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Acipenser fulvescens. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=299> Revision Date: 8/2/2005
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