Associated Press
This 240-pound sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught April 22 in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; a USFWS staffer is laying alongside for comparison. The nearly 7-foot-long fish, assumed to be a female, was quickly released back into the river after being weighed and measured.
DETROIT (AP) Now that’s a whopper a very old whopper!
A 240-pound sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught last week in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The “real life river monster” was nearly 7 feet long, the agency said Friday on Facebook.