Atlantic Sturgeon To Be Featured Fish At Delmarva Discovery
A new deepwater 8,000 gallon aquarium exhibit featuring native species found in the Pocomoke River is expected to open in the spring at Delmarva Discovery Center thanks to a $250,000 contribution from the Fulton Owen Foundation.
The featured fish will be the Atlantic sturgeon, a unique species that would have come up the Pocomoke River to spawn and was commercially fished in the river in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Having swum up the river in large schools in those early years, it is now almost to the point of being placed on the endangered list. [Via]
