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[Aquariareview]

 

I took this picture at a fish hatchery in Oregon. Herman is an (approximately) 11 foot long, 500 pound, 70 year old white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) who resides at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery at the mouth of Tanner Creek on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.

[wreck]

he looks cool, it's wild to think that sturgeons used to thrive and spawn in the Potomac River.

[MOT]

thats awesome! do you have any other pics from the fishery? i'd love to see em. I had no idea that they used to live in the potomac, i wonder why they don't any more... a three eyed sturgeon would be sweet!

Edited June 27, 2008 by MOT

[wreck]

I had to do a search to make sure my memory was correct and found this article:sturgeon in the Potomac

[Highland Reefer]

I wonder if the canal project had anything to do with it?

[lanman]

As a native Oregon resident... I've been to the fish hatchery at Bonneville, and I've caught sturgeon in the Columbia river (near Astoria). Oregon is beautiful. Please visit. And then leave.

 

bob

[jason the filter freak]

looks freaking awesome! great pic.

[paenian]

I used to go sturgeon fishing all the time up in the UP of Michigan; never quite caught a legal one, though :-(