Biologist Chris Burnett places a shortnosed sturgeon on a board containing a ruler for measuring before implanting an electronic an electronic tracking device in the fish's belly near the Tappan Zee Bridge north of Tarrytown, N.Y., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The tagging is part of The shortnose sturgeon and its much larger cousin, the Atlantic sturgeon, are on the federal endangered species list. Both types of sturgeon will be tracked and studied as the state of New York complies with safety measures that were conditions of the New York Thruway Authority's permit to build the new Tappan Zee bridge, scheduled for completion in 2018. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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