FWIW:
Big Sturgeon were often shot with rifles to feed the work crews when Conowingo was built. Think that dam really hurt a lot of fish populations.
Some would swim far upriver to spawn - now they are stuck.
Really not that long ago.
Few Sturgeons are caught each year in nets in Md - the Delaware river has more of them.
Know a diver who has bumped into a few of them up there on a gravel piece of bottom. Here I though Cownose Rays were spooky.
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