{"id":1858,"date":"2012-02-09T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:20:46","slug":"atlantic-sturgeon-once-common-in-the-hudson-river-now-on-endangered-species-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/09\/atlantic-sturgeon-once-common-in-the-hudson-river-now-on-endangered-species-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Sturgeon &#8211; once common in the Hudson River &#8211; now on Endangered Species List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Sturgeon now listed as Endangered Species. You might have heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/npr\/146393348\/sturgeon-scarcity-affects-more-than-caviar\" target=\"_blank\">this story on NPR&#8217;s Weekend Edition<\/a> this past Saturday (Feb. 4).<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"What will protections mean for communities on the Hudson River?\" target=\"_blank\">this New York Times article<\/a> takes a look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sturgeon, in decades long past, commonly exceeded 14 feet and 800 pounds. In the late 1800s, the fish were so abundant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/animals\/7025.html\">in the Hudson River<\/a> that they were stacked like logs on sloop decks and <a id=\"aptureLink_UGGuEtaXbz\" href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_gmR8fkmAnjw\/TKzPovZvT5I\/AAAAAAAACxU\/nEal8vwzo7Y\/s512\/AlbBeef1881nyt.jpg\">the smoked flesh gained the nickname Albany beef.<\/a> But they suffered two great population crashes, first toward the end of the 19th century and again in <a id=\"aptureLink_2mX4jB3jZP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nefsc.noaa.gov\/sos\/spsyn\/af\/sturgeon\/images\/fig42_2.gif\">the last years of the 20th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 1996, all fishing of the New York sturgeon population was stopped under a moratorium that persists today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Sturgeon now listed as Endangered Species. You might have heard this story on NPR&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,6206,6205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}