Rare lake sturgeon caught near Gavins Point Dam

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission caught a rare lake sturgeon in the Missouri River near Gavins Point Dam on April 14 while surveying the river for paddlefish.

The fish weighed 70 pounds and measured nearly 5 feet long.

The sturgeon had been tagged nine years ago near the confluence of the Missouri and Osage Rivers.

#sturgeon #fish #MissouriRiver #Nebraska

https://www.ktiv.com/2026/06/04/rare-lake-sturgeon-caught-near-gavins-point-dam/

So a total of £1,0060,000 has gone missing from SNP accounts?

£400k by Murrell and £660k supposedly for a referendum, but spent on other stuff...

#snp #scotland #politics #ukpolitics #swinney #murrell #sturgeon #scottish

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c362gx5px47o

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: Atlantic #sturgeon – #fish as long as a VW Beetle – produce low-frequency “thunder” #sounds during mating in #NewYork’s #HudsonRiver, according to researchers at #Cornell. 💙

The sounds may come from thrashing or swim bladder movement. Scientists hope to use the recordings to monitor #endangered sturgeon populations without disturbing them. 🐟

👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sturgeon-fish-sex-sounds-like-thunder/

#sound #conservation #marinebiology #science #biology #nature #wildlife

A week is a long time in politics.11 years is centuries.

When #Sturgeon published these photos on this day, she was a hero. The "Nicolopter" took her to selfie-mobs. The #SNP won 95% of Scotland's Westmihster seats.

In 2026, it's all gone. Power. Adulation. Many friendships. Marriage. Home.

Was Nicola wrong, or wronged? Probably both. That's how it goes with humans.

But still. Once upon a time, #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 had a First Minister it loved. ❤️💙

Album at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BxYcASRev/

#scotpol #ukpol

Ex-MP #JoannaCherry is a v sore loser.

She has left the #SNP, and has a lucrative career as a KC, but 2 years after Parliament she still seems to put a lot of energy spraying venom on her former colleagues in the SNP, esp #Sturgeon & #Swinney.

This is a consistent pattern in Cherry's politics: all angry negative. Bitter about Brexit, bitter about SNP, bitter about #trans people.

screenshot from https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/joanna-cherry-holyrood-independence-vote-utterly-performative-8648256, which includes video of a 45-min interview with Cherry.

#scotpol #ukpol

Why did #PeterMurrell do it? Did Nicola #Sturgeon know?

Murray Foote, who succeeded Murrell as SNP chief exec, rightly concludes that it's hard to know the answer to either question. https://archive.is/LGyn9

There are very plausible answers to most of the accusations made against Sturgeon, but it's unlikely that anyone outside that marriage will ever know the truth.

The wonderful Andrew Tickell (aka #PeatWorrier) has some thoughts on the #PeterMurrell saga, at https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2059373652961878261.html

I was particularly struck by his comments on the tackiness of some of #Murrell's purchases. Even in Scotland, British class sensibilities problematise such spending from every angle.

I think of a late friend's Scots uber-aristo granny reportedly speaking in the 1950s of "the middle classes — the sort of people who own fish knives".

#scotpol #Sturgeon #SNP

The SNP and its members are victims of Peter Murrell's embezzlement, not the perpetrators. It was SNP party funds that were embezzled, not public money. The investigation into Nicola Sturgeon cost £2m, and she was entirely vindicated. All the gum-bumping and teeth gnashing by Baillie, Fraser, etc., will not change that.

Sorry to all those bitter unionists who believed Operation Branchform was the smoking gun that would destroy the SNP and pave the way for Sarwar to swan into Bute House.

I bet yer ragin.

#snp #scotland #ukpolitics #scottishpolitics #murrell #sturgeon

Tell me, Mrs Murrel-Sturgeon, why didn't you suspect your husband was fiddling the books when he bought a Niesmann+Bischoff luxury motorhome for £124,550 in late 2020? Where did you think the cash came from?

#Murrell #Sturgeon #SNP
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