A group of endangered Atlantic sturgeon from the Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge— each weighing over 100 pounds— are making a new home at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island.
The sturgeon were captured in waters of the Chesapeake Bay before 2011. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Horn Point Lab and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources hoped to breed them at Horn Point, but a budget shortage in 2018 forced the sturgeon program to shut down.
Atlantic sturgeon have been listed as threatened and endangered since 2012. They are huge and long-lived, growing up to 60 feet long, and living to be 30 to 60 years old, according to NOAA Fisheries. Fossil records indicate sturgeon have been around for at least 85 million years.
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