100 year old record Sturgeon

If any of you guys who object to spearing and are hunters of any game be it with bow or gun, I think you are hypocrites. You want it your way and your way only.

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Sturgeon are making an amazing comeback after such incredibly stupid abuse.

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Either I said that wrong or you took it wrong. I was talking about using sturgeon for fuel for steam locomotives, fertilizer, or just letting them rot. I think the lake that produced this tremendous fish is very well managed and we should be looking into how they are doing it. Seems fair to me that hook and line be allowed if spearing is.

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I had the opportunity to help the taxidermist skin out the record 212.2 pound fish this morning, and then dissect the internal organs and gather other important biological information on this fish. Eventually, after the taxidermist is done doing his thing, we will get the fin bones and the ear bones (the otoliths) to get a read on the true age of this fish. At this point we guesstimate, given its size, that it is in the neighborhood of 100 years old. The real surprise this morning was to find out the fish was not a fully developed black-egg fish. The gonads were in an “F1 Fat” stage, meaning the fish was in the final stages of storing fat prior to producing eggs (actually producing the yolk for those eggs) for its next spawn which would have likely occurred in 2011 (females only spawn once every four years on the average). If this fish would have been in a “F4-Black Egg” stage it would have likely weighed 240 to 250 pounds. The large number of big fish over 100 pounds (at this point 71 out of 1478 or 4.8%) is a real trend in the population that we have seen building over the last decade. This trend is a result of the harvest regulations we have put in place over the last 19 years working with our Winnebago Citizens Sturgeon Advisory Committee, the luck of having some strong hatches of fish in the early 1900s, and other important factors like the Sturgeon for Tomorrow sponsored Sturgeon Guard Program that began in 1977 protecting spawning sturgeon from poaching using volunteer guards on the Wolf River in April, 24 hours a day, when the fish are actively spawning and very vulnerable to illegal harvest. Finally – I have been asked many times over the last few days “How old can lake sturgeon in Winnebago get?”. At this point we are seeing that they can get quite old – perhaps 120 years or more. What we are also seeing is that, due to our harvest management system, this is the first opportunity for our fish to express their true longevity potential since pre-settlement times in the mid 1800s. We’ll know for sure how old they can get in another 50 to 100 years…….something for my successors to study – I don’t think I’ll be around at that time.

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100 year old fish. Pretty odd to think a fish can outlive you. That fish lived through the great depression for crypes sake.

..and Chrysler’s K cars.

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Well the season shuts down today… Green Bay Gazette
Check out the video on a Neenah women’s fish…..

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I don’t know. I know it’s legal and regualted, but it just seems wrong to me. At least not enjoyable, I’d rather tangle with a big sturgeon on the end of a line.

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It seems wrong to some people maybe. That you shot those trophys on your wall with a gun. You should have used a spear,blow gun or BOW not a GUN

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That you shot those trophys on your wall with a gun. You should have used a spear,blow gun or BOW not a GUN

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Or tackle them and bite through their jugular.