Discover how a massive ancient fish is making a comeback in our big rivers. With a sharklike body, a long snout, and no teeth, Lake Sturgeon live long and travel far and wide. Reports of them spawning in the wild have led to an historic event for MDC Fisheries staff at our Blind Pony Hatchery. Journey underwater in the Osage River, to a spawning site on the Mississippi River and inside the hatchery to see the restoration of a species with a long circle of life in Missouri waters. | Missouri Dept
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PADDLEFISH SPAWNING -- Thanks to the staff at Blind Pony Hatchery for sending this video of spawning paddlefish and egg development. After hatching, paddlefish fry will be reared in outdoor ponds until they are big enough to be released into public waters around the state. The Missouri Department of Conservation artificially spawns paddlefish each spring and stocks in locations where the species cannot reproduce naturally due to habitat destruction. Learn more: https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature
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GROWING PADDLEFISH (April - June 2022) -- In mid-April, staff at Blind Pony Hatchery released freshly hatched paddlefish fry into rearing ponds. In early June, after 8 weeks of feeding and care, the rearing ponds were drained and 56,000 paddlefish were loaded onto trucks and released. These fish were distributed between Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Reservoir, Table Rock Lake, and the Black River. Paddlefish are unable to reproduce naturally in much of Missouri due to the construction of dams, bloc
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