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Podcast: Conservation and Science
Episode: 151: Irish Sturgeon with Declan Quigley
Description: One of the three pillars of my podcast is to preserve knowledge about how the natural environment was in the past and to record stories and experiences from many decades ago. One such story, that I have a feeling is slipping away, is the story of the Irish sturgeon. Or to be more precise the story of sturgeon in Irish waters, as it wasn’t a separate species but likely one of two recorded in the north-west European waters: the Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) or the European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio).My feeling that the story is not we...