HERMANN — It’s a cool and exceptionally foggy November morning as Andy Plauck and two fellow employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service slip their net boat, “Big John,” into the chilled Missouri River at the Hermann ramp. They begin working their way through the fog to count pallid sturgeon by checking gill nets set strategically below the surface of the Big Muddy.
Struggling sturgeon
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | 5:29 p.m. CST;
updated 7:19 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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