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A US Fish and Wildlife Service crew got the shock of their lives when, while on patrol on the Detroit River, they reeled in a nearly 6-foot-10, 240-pound sturgeon, likely over 100 years old.
The fish, believed to be one of the largest ever caught in the United States, was found near Grosse Ile. The crew tagged and released it back into the river. We’re trying to protect this fishery, Justin Chiotti, a US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist told The Detroit Free Press. Everybody is always catching a huge sturgeon. Everybody catches a 100-pounder. But a fish this size is very, very rare to catch.
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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.
240-pound sturgeon? Not just a fish story
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
A staff member with the Alpena Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office s Detroit River native species crew lies next to an adult lake sturgeon on the deck of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service boat during April 2021.Photo by Jason Fischer | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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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, where the photo was shared more than 24,000 times by late afternoon.
Share May 01, 2021, 6:47 AM A massive lake sturgeon, a dinosaur-looking fish that is probably the oldest species living in North American freshwater lakes, was hauled out of the Detroit River Thursday by U.S. Fish & Wildlife researchers.
Jennifer Johnson of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife service lies next to the massive sturgeon for scale (Photo: U.S. Fish & Wildlife) The lunker gal and she was a gal tipped the scales at 240 pounds, measured 6 feet 10 inches nose to tail, and nearly four feet around at her midsection. (Or roughly the same as the 45th president, but taller, if she could stand up.) The fish was photographed and released, and the picture of her with a Fish & Wildlife staffer lying alongside for scale, went locally viral Friday.
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This April 22, 2021 photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a 240-pound (108.8 kilograms) 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 with a USFWS staffer laying next to it. The 240-pound, nearly 7 foot long fish, assumed to be a female was quickly released back into the river after being weighed and measured into the river. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
DETROIT 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, where the photo was shared more than 24,000 times by late afternoon. “Based on its girth and size, it is assumed to be a female and that she has been roaming our waters over 100 years. She was quickly released back in