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Title	Fish and Wildlife Service employee weighing lake sturgeon
Alternative Title	Acipenser fulvescens
Creator	USFWS;
Description	Henry Quinlan, Service Fisheries biologist weighs a lake sturgeon along the Bad River in Wisconsin. This fish species is an important biological component of the Great Lakes fish community. By the early 1900's many populations of lake sturgeon throughout their range had been greatly reduced or extirpated as a result of overfishing, habitat loss, the construction of dams, and pollution. Lake sturgeon are listed as either threatened or endangered by 19 of the 20 states within its original range in the United States.
FWS Resource Links	http://www.fws.gov/midwest/sturgeon/
Subject	Fisheries management Fishes Freshwater fishes
Location	Wisconsin
Publisher	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributors	Quinlan, Henry
Date of Original	04-01-2007
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Item ID	WV-R3weighing.JPG
Source	NCTC Image Library
Language	English
Rights	Public Domain
Audience	General
File Size	171.282 kb
Height	480
Width	600
Color Space	RGB
Original Format	Digital
Full Resolution File Size	4.00 x 6.00 inches, 300 dpi (high, print quality);
Full resolution	Volume1\WV-R3weighing.JPG http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume1\WV-R3weighing.JPG
Date created	2007-05-17
Date modified	2013-03-06