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The lake sturgeon uses its elongated, spade-like snout to stir up the substrate and sediments on the beds of rivers and lakes to feed. Four sensory organs hang near its mouth to help the sturgeon locate bottom-dwelling prey. Lake sturgeons can grow to a large size for freshwater fish, topping 7.25 ft (2.2 m) long and 240 lb (108 kg). [8]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Weight Length in inches Date Location County ... Sturgeon, Lake 170 lbs. 10 oz. 79.0 09/22/1979
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... in length. The largest sturgeon on record was a beluga female captured in the Volga Delta in 1827, ... (Lake sturgeon)
And these aren't your average fish. Lake sturgeon can weigh up to 200 pounds and live to be 100 years old. They're listed as a threatened species in Michigan and sport fishing is closely regulated
Nov. 11—KETTLE FALLS, Wash. — Standing at one end of a folding table, Derick Largin handled a small white sturgeon carefully, checking its back for a tag. Then he measured it, from snout to tail.
The population of lake sturgeon in the Winnebago System (lakes Winnebago, Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne and the Fox and Wolf rivers) numbers about 35,000 adult fish and is among the ...
At sexual maturity, A. transmontanus can reach 1.6 m (5.2 ft) in length, while the maximum length recorded of any age class is 6.1 m (20 ft), with common lengths around 2.1 m (6.9 ft). While age at maturity is uncertain, possible age ranges of known A. transmontanus specimens range from 11 to 34 years old. [ 3 ]
Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) O, extinct in West Virginia Shovelnose sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus platorynchus ) O, VU [ 2 ] Family Polyodontidae (paddlefishes)