Saving the sturgeon | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal

Saving the sturgeon | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal: "The surface of the Blackwater River was as smooth as glass this week. The water, true to its name, was inky black.

Lurking in the tranquil depths is an ancient and most unusual inhabitant: the Gulf sturgeon, an armor-plated bottom-dweller that's been around for 200 million years.

This week, a group of four scientists plied up the Blackwater on a mission to catch and tag the elusive sturgeon, which is beginning its fall migration.

The fish will spill out of the Blackwater, Yellow, Escambia and other rivers along the coast from Louisiana to Apalachicola and head toward their feeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico."