Thirty-one shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) were caught in gillnets in Montsweag Bay in the Sheepscot River system during June and July of 1971 and 1972. Of nine fish preserved for study, six were longer than any previously documented and four exceeded the maximum total length previously postulated. These specimens represent the second population of this endangered species found in the Gulf of Maine.
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Fried et al. (1973) studied this question.