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Dear colleagues, I am in the process of compiling a review of prehistoric and historic uses of sturgeon along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA as well as the Atlantic Provinces and the Saint Lawrence River drainage in Canada on behalf of the Ocean Tracking Network (http://oceantrackingnetwork.org/). Toward this end, I have been compiling available archaeological data and historical accounts for sturgeon fishing across this broad region. While I have found a fair amount of relevant sources, I am aware that faunal analysis has a tendency to be buried in the "grey literature". Thus, there is likely a lot that I am missing, especially for the US states. Does anyone know of zooarchaeological and/or ethnohistorical references to sturgeon from this area (I already have a pretty good handle on the material from Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces)? Although there is likely a lot of data from the interior portions of eastern North America (especially the Great Lakes), the focus is primarily on sturgeon from coastal areas or rivers which flow into the Atlantic, given the scope of the OTN (essentially, the ranges of *Acipenser o. oxyrinchus *and *Acipenser brevirostrum*). Although any amount of sturgeon is worth including, I am especially interested in cases where is evidence for a focal fishery or ceremonial linkages between humans and sturgeon. Thank you all for your time and consideration, Jesse Webb *W. Jesse Webb* *Graduate Student (MA), Archaeology* Department of Anthropology University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada [log in to unmask]