Is this real??

Does anyone know the details on this one? Is it for real? Someone
e-mailed it to me last week.

http://community-2.webtv.net/cindyann_35/doc/

It is a sturgeon; they can get very big. I can't say if they get that big
though.
George in Las Vegas

maiden of mayhem wrote:
Does anyone know the details on this one? Is it for real? Someone
e-mailed it to me last week.

http://community-2.webtv.net/cindyann_35/doc/


They do get that big,, and that would be a hard photo to fake

--
Rodney Long
SpecTastic Wiggle rig
Formally the Mojo Wiggle rig
http://spectastictackle.com/

Rodney Long voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in rec.outdoors.fishing on
Wed 19 Sep 2007 12:51:05p:

maiden of mayhem wrote:
Does anyone know the details on this one? Is it for real? Someone
e-mailed it to me last week.

http://community-2.webtv.net/cindyann_35/doc/


They do get that big,, and that would be a hard photo to fake


I grew up on the Fraser River just south of Vancouver and have heard of
them going over 1500 lbs. That was estimated from skeletal remains.

They're mostly a lot smaller now due to pollution and overfishing in the
past and can live for something like 200 years.

Toothless bottom-feeders won't take a fly anyhow. :0)


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)

"LabRat" wrote in message
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Rodney Long voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in rec.outdoors.fishing on
Wed 19 Sep 2007 12:51:05p:

maiden of mayhem wrote:
Does anyone know the details on this one? Is it for real? Someone
e-mailed it to me last week.

http://community-2.webtv.net/cindyann_35/doc/


They do get that big,, and that would be a hard photo to fake


I grew up on the Fraser River just south of Vancouver and have heard of
them going over 1500 lbs. That was estimated from skeletal remains.

They're mostly a lot smaller now due to pollution and overfishing in the
past and can live for something like 200 years.

Toothless bottom-feeders won't take a fly anyhow. :0)


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)



That is a Frazer River sturgeon. All C&R there. The record is about 1800#
out of the Frazier.

Calif Bill voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in rec.outdoors.fishing on
Wed 19 Sep 2007 09:46:48p:


"LabRat" wrote in message
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Rodney Long voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
rec.outdoors.fishing on Wed 19 Sep 2007 12:51:05p:

maiden of mayhem wrote:
Does anyone know the details on this one? Is it for real? Someone
e-mailed it to me last week.

http://community-2.webtv.net/cindyann_35/doc/


They do get that big,, and that would be a hard photo to fake


I grew up on the Fraser River just south of Vancouver and have heard
of them going over 1500 lbs. That was estimated from skeletal
remains.

They're mostly a lot smaller now due to pollution and overfishing in
the past and can live for something like 200 years.

Toothless bottom-feeders won't take a fly anyhow. :0)


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)



That is a Frazer River sturgeon. All C&R there. The record is about
1800# out of the Frazier.




That's FRASER River. I grew up right in the middle of it on Lulu Island
in the municipality of Richmond, BC. Spent my youth playing on it's
banks, fishing off the log booms and nailing my first piece of tail in
the back seat of my old Rambler station wagon on it's dikes.

Caught many a sturgeon off those booms too tho none were monsters like
the one in the picture.

Some stats for sturgeon ...

The population of B.C.'s largest freshwater fish — the endangered white
sturgeon — has declined by more than a fifth over the past two years in
the Lower Fraser River, researchers say.

The white sturgeon are prehistoric survivors, dating back to the time of
the dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. They can live about 100 years
and grow up to six metres in length.

In British Columbia, they were almost fished out a century ago, but their
numbers have grown since then until 2004, when more than 60,000 white
sturgeon were swimming between Chilliwack and the mouth of the Fraser.

But then the trend was reversed. Craig Orr of Watershed Watch Salmon
Society said the same waterways now contain about 49,000 white sturgeon.

"That's a decline of 21 per cent over the last two years, which is quite
troubling because there had been a bit of an increase in recent years."

Orr says the decline is happening among smaller juvenile sturgeon that
are small and spiny — because they are prickly enough to get caught up in
salmon fishermen's nets.

"They seem to be vulnerable especially for nets set for salmon. That
seems to be where a lot of the mortality is, but it's not entirely
related to that," he said.

"There is also a lower growth rate, probably an indication of poor
ecosystem health."

Sturgeon are the world's longest living fish.

Most of the sturgeon caught and released these days are 90 to 120
centimetres in length, with big ones up 270 centimetres long.

Orr said that 100 years ago, before it was overfished, the river
contained monster sturgeons up to six metres long.



STURGEON POACHERS LINKED TO DRUG DEALERS

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2002 | 12:51 PM ET
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Federal Fisheries officers say they suspect organized crime is involved
in white sturgeon poaching in the Fraser River.

Twice in the past two weeks, fisheries officers have found sturgeon – one
and one dead – in marijuana grow op houses in the Lower Mainland.

Fisheries spokesperson Paul Cottrell says it's a trend that is part of a
larger crime ring. "We don't have a real good handle. We get occurrences
almost every week of it going on," he says.

However, he says Fisheries officers can't work overtime to catch the
poachers because of cuts to enforcement budgets, noting most poachers
operate after hours.

Cottrell notes the prehistoric sturgeon is a hot commodity on the black
market, with the white meat selling for up six dollars a pound and the
rose for even more.

Fisheries officials plan to meet with police and conservation officers in
the next few weeks to devise new plans to net the sturgeon poachers.

There are fewer than 50,000 white sturgeon in the Lower Fraser, with less
than two per cent of them adults capable of reproducing.

Troy Nelson of the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society says the
big fish can live for 200 years and group up to six metres in length.

"It hasn't changed its general morphology for over 65 million years, the
fossil record, which in our terms would make it a living dinosaur."



SPECIES AT RISK ACT FAILS AGAIN: WHITE STURGEON LEFT OFF LIST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—JUNE 14, 2006--Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter,
and Watershed Watch Salmon Society today accused the federal government
of ignoring science in its decision not to protect endangered white
sturgeon in the lower Fraser River.

Two Fraser River populations of white sturgeon, listed as endangered by
the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC),
were not included among the 42 new animals, plants and fish given legal
protection June 12 under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA).

“The decision not to protect white sturgeon shows that short-term
economic interests once again triumph over species survival and our
ability to ensure a sustainable resource for future generations,” said
Dr. Colin Campbell, marine campaign coordinator for the Sierra Club of
Canada, BC Chapter. “This is the same strategy that led the Atlantic Cod
to their present state of demise.”

Dr. Craig Orr, Executive Director of Watershed Watch, called the failure
to protect Lower Fraser white sturgeon “a betrayal of public interest.”
“Federal Environment Minister Rona Ambrose and federal Fisheries Minister
Loyola Hearn are refusing to give an endangered species the legal
protection it needs.”

B.C.’s endangered Cultus and Sakinaw sockeye salmon and upper Fraser Coho
salmon were previously rejected from the legal protection of SARA. “The
ducks have now lined up with the rejection of Lower Fraser white
sturgeon,” said Orr. “We are far more likely to protect species that have
little economic value.”

Despite Ambrose’s assertion that affording legal protection to the white
sturgeon would have a negative impact on the sports fishery, the Fraser
River Sturgeon Conservation Society maintains that “the benefits of SARA,
partnered with the benefits of the recreational fishery, provide the
best, realistic pathway toward white sturgeon stock recovery and
protection.”

Since the November 2003, COSEWIC designation of Lower Fraser white
sturgeon as endangered, the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society
reports that populations have declined a further 22 percent.
“Such a rate of decline demands intervention—and the best opportunity has
been rejected,” said Campbell.
*
Contact: Dr. Colin Campbell, marine campaign coordinator, Sierra Club of
Canada, BC Chapter (250) 386-5255 ext 236. Cell: (250) 361-6476
Dr. Craig Orr, Executive Director, Watershed Watch Salmon Society: (604)
936-9474. Cell: (604) 809-2799




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