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The History of America Flows Through the Hudson River, and the Country’s Aquatic Superhighway Is on the Rebound

The bucolic river is famous for reversing its current a few times each day. Now, an ongoing cleanup effort is reversing ...
Central Jersey

Last call for unique Delaware River Atlantic sturgeon

For more than 100 million years, Atlantic sturgeon have navigated the lower reaches of the Delaware River. Now, with fewer than 250 spawning adults left, this population of large, iconic fish is ...
The Daily Gazette

Hudson River sturgeon population highest in world, state conservation dept. says

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced Friday new research that estimates the population of endangered shortnose sturgeon in the Hudson River to be nearly 70,000 ...
The Daily Gazette

Estuary signs help protect river and sturgeon

COLUMBIA/GREENE COUNTIES — Hudson River Estuary signs imprinted with a sturgeon logo went up next to many of the streams and bridges in Columbia and Greene counties in 1999, many residents who did not ...