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Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff were conducting their annual sturgeon survey when they reeled in a 125-pound and 6-foot-plus lake sturgeon on Lake St. Clair.
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
MICHIGAN OFFICIALS REEL IN RECORD 125-POUND PREHISTORIC FISH STRETCHING 6-PLUS FEET LONG ... More than 7 million pounds of sturgeon were caught in 1890 with only 23,000 pounds of sturgeon caught ...
Burt Lake is a 17,120 acres (69.3 km 2) lake in Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The western shore of the lake is on the boundary with Emmet County. The lake is named after William Austin Burt, who, together with John Mullett, made a federal survey of the area from 1840 to 1843. The lake is approximately 10 miles (16 km) long ...
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae of the order Acipenseriformes. They are an anadromous (migratory) fish species ranging in the Eastern Pacific; from the Gulf of Alaska to Monterey, California. However, some are landlocked in the Columbia River Drainage, Montana, and Lake Shasta in ...
Feb. 16—BLACK LAKE, Mich. — The unique sturgeon fishing season on the 10,000-acre body of water of the same name here in the extreme northeastern corner of the Lower Peninsula came off as ...
Sturgeon. Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European * str̥ (Hx)yón - [1]) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous, and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish, which date back to the Early Jurassic ...
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