Riverkeeper, partners endeavor to help St. Marys sturgeon
All sturgeon species, including the Atlantic sturgeon pictured, have prominent bony, diamond-shaped scales, called scutes, along the length of their body. Scutes help protect the sturgeon from predators.
It’s prehistoric. At a large enough size, it’s not hard to imagine people now or in the past considering the fish a bona fide river monster. However, for such an ancient fish, types of sturgeon are in…
