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Jessica Sherman, Jennifer Johnson, and Paige Wigren pose with a 123-pound sturgeon captured in 2017 (Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service)
When Jennifer Johnson and her team embarked on their annual quest to survey the sturgeon population in the Detroit River in mid-April 2021, they had fully expected to find some super-sized specimens. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists had never anticipated luring in the granddaddy of all sturgeons a massive, 240-pound, 6-foot, 10-inch long fish that they estimate is at least a century old! Normally when a fish goes by, we call, Fish! Fish! Johnson told
The Detroit News. This time when the shadow went by, and I saw it, I shouted, Fish! Big fish!