Where The Boys Are  For the past several seasons CSRP biologists
have intensively and meticulously tracked female pallid sturgeon
to their spawning locations.  All this attention on females is
because biologists can easily tell when a female spawns by the
presence or absence of eggs.  When the female is tagged with
eggs, migrates, then stops, and is recaptured without any eggs
it is easy to conclude that she must have spawned.  Knowing
where these spawning sites are is critical to understanding why
there are so few young pallid sturgeon being added to the
population each year.  But finding the “spot” on the map where
spawning happens is only part of the story.  What are the males
doing while females are migrating upstream and what part do
males play in when and where females stop to spawn?  Spawning
locations are defined by where a female deposits her eggs, but
which sex really chooses the spot on the map, and why?  For the
first time in the Lower Missouri River, CSRP biologists
documented a small aggregation