Sturgeon in Maine

AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

In this Thursday, April 25, 2019 photo, a researcher holds an endangered shortnose sturgeon caught in a net in the Saco River in Biddeford, Maine. The fish was measured and tagged before being released by students at the University of New England. Sturgeon were America’s vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation’s rivers until mankind’s craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction.

AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

In this Thursday, April 25, 2019 photo, an endangered shortnose sturgeon is tagged after being caught in a net from the Saco River in Biddeford, Maine. Students at the University of New England are studying the sturgeon's population. About 75 have been captured this decade on the Saco River, where they were previously never seen.

AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

In this Thursday, April 25, 2019 photo, an endangered shortnose sturgeon is measured by Hannah Verkamp, left, a student at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. Sturgeon were America’s vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation’s rivers until mankind’s craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction.

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