Sherry8
Wisconsin...zone 4
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: Did anyone ever see Sturgeon spawning? |
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Here in Wisconsin, Sturgeon spawning time is a big event. People line up to watch the large fish thrashing in the water and jumping up. I have sat there for hours with my husband watching them. In fact we look forward to the time of year. No one is allowed to fish for them at this time because they are spawning or getting their eggs out up on the rocks in the water.The DNR in the picture bring some of them on shore and measure and weigh them and tag them. My granddaughter one time got to touch one. They have someone there at all times so no one disrupts them or collects their eggs while spawning. It usually lasts a little more than a week, depending on the weather. The fish are quite large and spawn in the spring.Some of the bigger ones are six feet long and about 180 pounds.
In the winter the fisherman spear the sturgeon through a hole in the ice. It is a big event and they are allowed to spear just so many a season. They are the largest fish I have ever seen.
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Cool pictures Sherry. They sure are big fish!
When I lived on the Lake we used to watch the fish spawn. I'm not sure what kind of fish they were, they were not as big as your Sturgeon but it was kind of neat to watch. In the winter, the Lake (Simcoe)is covered in fish huts and it is big business for the locals here.
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Frank
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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They are some giant fellows aren't they. I imagine it is quite exciting to watch this. Thanks for posting Sherry.
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CritterPainter
Washington State
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: |
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Great photos! It's so funny you'd mention this. I was just today wishing I'd gotten some pictures of the spawning salmon. It's always so fun to take someone new to the area up into the forest to the spawning streams- they don't expect salmon in the middle of the woods, lol!
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glendann
Texas
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Those are beauties and so big.It must be fasinating to watch.Thanks so much for posting the pictures Sherry.
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Droopy
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Western Norway
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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How interesting! That must be such a show to watch. Thank you for sharing Sherry8.
Today I've learned that you have sturgeon in Wisconsin. I thought they were only in Russia, because of the caviar.
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Biita
Norway
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Excellent post an pics Sherry, thank you, an dang those are some big fish. 
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wannabe
Springfield, Illinois
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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I never saw any fish that spawned in big numbers like that except smelt. When we lived in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan the smelt would spawn every spring and we would seine big tubfuls. Wannabe
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