The society pursues this goal by promoting sturgeon research, holding workshops and conferences, promoting the exchange of sturgeon-related information between scientists and politicians, and by informing the general public about sturgeons.
The WSCS has its seat in Neu Wulmstorf, Germany, where it has been founded in 2003. The President of WSCS is Harald Rosenthal. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harald Rosenthal (* June 9, 1937 in Berlin) is a German hydrobiologist and fisheries scientist known for his work in fish farming, ecology, and international cooperation. ...
Sturgeon are among the oldest fishes in the world, swimming in lakes and rivers since dinosaurs roamed the shores.
Sturgeon scientists, researchers, fishermen, aquaculturalists and conservationists have a common goal, which is to ensure the survival of sturgeon worldwide, said Binkowski, fisheries biologist with the UW Sea Grant Institute.
The idea for the WorldSturgeonConservationSociety grew out of an international sturgeon symposium held in Wisconsin in July 2001, cosponsored by the UW Sea Grant Institute and the WDNR, among others.
The sturgeon is included as a royal fish in an act of King Edward II, although it probably only rarely graces the royal table of the present period, or even that of the lord mayor of London, who can claim all sturgeons caught in the Thames above London Bridge.
Where sturgeons are caught in large quantities, as on the rivers of southern Russia and on the great lakes of North America, their flesh is dried, smoked or salted.
The sturgeons of the lakes are unable to migrate to the sea, whilst those below Niagara Falls are great wanderers; and it is quite possible that a specimen of this species said to have been obtained from the Firth of Tay was really captured on the coast of Scotland.
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