The Atlantic sturgeon survived the ice age and outlasted the dinosaurs, but the 250 million-year-old forage fish might not survive the modern age.

In the Hudson River, there were just 450 adults in 2014, about half the number recorded in 1998, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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