Effective recovery efforts require ongoing research and monitoring of sturgeon status, limiting factors and potential recovery actions. With continued commitment to a conservation hatchery program and restoration of natural recruitment within the next 20 years, at least 50 years will be required to rebuild a stable adult population and 100 years for restoration of stable naturally-produced population.

2006-2007 Study Plans

The Study Plan is a summary report that outlines the range and type of operational, technical and administrative activities that are associated with the current funding year of the Initiative. (24-page, 555kb pdf file)


Upper Columbia River Sturgeon Capture, Transport and Handling Manual, May 2006 (52-page, 1.49mb pdf file)

Suggested Protocol for Sampling White Sturgeon Mortalities (1-page, 69kb pdf file)

Columbia River Substrate Investigation (46-page, 4.68mb pdf file)

Upper Columbia River Juvenile White Sturgeon Monitoring: Phase 4 Investigations, 2005-2006 (70-page, 5.88mb pdf file)

Arrow Lakes Reservoir White Sturgeon (Acipenser Transmontanus) spawning periodicity and embryo and larval development downstream of Revelstoke Dam and estimated effects of river impoundment on the timing of spawning (54-page, 732kb pdf file)

2005-2006 UCWSRI Annual Report & Jan. 2007 Newsletter (8-page, 400kb pdf file)

Upper Columbia River White Sturgeon Contaminant & Deformity Evaluation and Summary Report (200-page, 2mb pdf file)

2004-2005 UCWSRI Annual Report (20-page, 600kb pdf file)

Upper Columbia River Juvenile White Sturgeon Monitoring: Phase 3 Investigations, Aug. 2004 - Feb. 2006; Sept. 2006 (187-page, 2.6mb pdf file)

Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Stock Monitoring and Data Management Program: Synthesis Report, 1 Nov. 2003 - 31 Mar. 2006; Aug. 2006 (187-page, large 5.3mb pdf file)

Lake Roosevelt White Sturgeon Recovery Project Annual Report Jan. 2004 - Mar. 2005; Aug. 2006 (111-page, 1.3mb pdf file)

Effects of Two Industrial Effluents on Juvenile White Sturgeon, Mar. 2004 (22-page, 285kb pdf file)

Gene Expression Profiles of Columbia River White Sturgeon Exposed to Two Industrial Effluents, Mar. 31 2004 (22-page, 184kb pdf file)

White Sturgeon Spawning at Waneta 2005 Investigations (70 page, 637kb pdf file)

Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Stock Monitoring and Data Management Program: Annual Report No. 2, 1 Apr. 2004 - 31 Mar. 2005 (22 page+ 2 app report, large 4.4mb pdf file)

Upper Columbia River Juvenile White Sturgeon Monitoring: Phase 2 Investigations, Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 (44-page, large 6.3mb pdf file)

Columbia White Sturgeon 2004 Annual Report (50-page, 390kb pdf file)

Kinbasket - Upper Columbia Sturgeon Re-colonization Risk Assessment Pathogen and Local Knowledge Sections (24-page, 232kb pdf file)

Ecological Risk Assessment For Proposed White Sturgeon Stocking of Kinbasket Reservoir, B.C. (37-page, 416kb pdf file)

2003-2004 UCWSRI Annual Report (24-page, large 2.75mb pdf file)

2002-2003 UCWSRI Annual Report (20-page, large 1.7mb pdf file)

Arrow Reservoir White Sturgeon Assessment 2001-2003 (36-page, 1mb pdf file)

Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Stock Monitoring and Data Management Program: 2003-2004 Annual Report (40-page, large 3mb pdf file)

Upper Columbia River Juvenile White Sturgeon Monitoring - Phase 1 Investigations, Fall 2002 (64-page, large 1.1mb pdf file)

Local Knowledge of Columbia River Fisheries in British Columbia, Canada June 2001 (62-page, large 3.5mb pdf file)

Other Reports



Recovery Plan

Technical Working Group