Last fall on Marshyhope Creek, which flows into the Nanticoke River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, biologists found something they thought they might never see: six adult female sturgeon that appeared ready to spawn.
“For us to get a female is, like, a monumental thing. But to get six of them in one year … ,” said Chuck Stence, a fisheries biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Even better, he said, one of them was a “spent female,” meaning she appeared to have just released her eggs into the creek…