400-kg giant sturgeon caught in west Canada
VANCOUVER. KAZINFORM - An American from California has fished a giant Fraser River sturgeon with his son in the British Columbia province in west Canada, a local report said on Sunday.
The report said that Don Jarvis and his son Paul were in B.C. Thursday on a three-day father-son fishing trip when Paul hooked into one of the largest white sturgeon ever caught on the Fraser River, Xinhua informs.
The giant fish measured more than 3.5 meters long and 1.1 meters around in girth. Since it was never removed from the water, its weight was calculated, based on a mathematical formula, at 400 kg.
The father and son fought the sturgeon for more than an hour before the fish was brought to shore by Dean Werk of Great River Fishing Adventures, the boat's lead guide.
It's the fourth giant sturgeon captured on the Fraser River in the last two years.
In September 2012, a 500-kg white sturgeon was caught. The massive fish was tagged and released back into the water.
Sturgeon of this size are very old, said Marvin Rosenau, an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology's School of Environment.
"These aren't fish that were just born, last week, last year, last decade, last half century," said Rosenau. "These were born around the time of the start of Canada," which was more than 140 years ago.