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FILE - In this March 7, 2006 file photo Tim Kiser positions an Idaho Fish and Game boat while Seth Richards tosses out a buoy that will mark fishing lines the two fisheries technicians have set on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, in hopes of catching mature sturgeon for the nearby Kootenai Tribal Sturgeon Hatchery. Federal officials are revising a 1999 recovery plan as part of a strategy to recover endangered white sturgeon in the Kootenai River in northern Idaho. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking public comments through July 29, 2019 on the recently released draft recovery plan revisions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

FILE - In this March 7, 2006 file photo Tim Kiser positions an Idaho Fish and Game boat while Seth Richards tosses out a buoy that will mark fishing lines the two fisheries technicians have set on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, in hopes of catching mature sturgeon for the nearby Kootenai Tribal Sturgeon Hatchery. Federal officials are revising a 1999 recovery plan as part of a strategy to recover endangered white sturgeon in the Kootenai River in northern Idah…

July 5, 2019

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Plan revised for saving Kootenai River white sturgeon
July 5, 2019 1:06 p.m.

Plan revised for saving Kootenai River white sturgeon

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials are revising a 1999 plan as part of a strategy to recover endangered white sturgeon in the Kootenai River in northern Idaho and western Montana.