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6-29-11: The Fish that Saved Jamestown
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Researchers working with Virginia Commonwealth University caught and released this sturgeon in the James River on September 11, 2009. It weighed 300 pounds and was more than seven feet long. Photo: VCU.
The Atlantic sturgeon, a dinosaur fish with armored back and whiskered chin, was the fish that fed and therefore saved the first successful English colony in North America: Jamestown. But today, the James River is the only place in the Chesapeake Bay region where sturgeon are still reproducing, and the federal government is considering endangered species protections for the fish.
This podcast originally aired December 1, 2010.
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