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Big fish! Age of record-setting Wisconsin sturgeon?
State DNR says nearly 100 years old
Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin wildlife official says a record-setting sturgeon speared over the weekend may have been more than 100 years old.
Ron Bruch, a fisheries supervisor with the Wisconsin DNR says officials haven’t yet determined the age of the 212-pound fish. But he says a preliminary look suggests it’s at least a century old.
According to The Reporter of Fond du Lac, Wis., if that’s true the female sturgeon would have laid some 11 million eggs in her lifetime.
The sturgeon was speared last Saturday by Ron Grishaber of Appleton. It was 84 inches long, or about the height of Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut. It was registered at the Harrison Station, west of the village of Sherwood.
The previous record was a 188-pound, 79.5-inch sturgeon caught in 2004 by Dave Piechowski of Redgranite. That fish was about five inches shorter than Grishaber’s.
Dozens of spearers caught fish that weighed at least 100 pounds since the season opened. A record 34 such fish were registered, with 31 from Lake Winnebago and the other three on upriver lakes.
As of Sunday, Lake Winnebago already was at nearly 40 percent of its adult female harvest cap. Upriver lakes were at more than 50 percent of their cap.
This post is for informational purposes only.
Big fish! Age of record-setting Wisconsin sturgeon?
State DNR says nearly 100 years old
Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin wildlife official says a record-setting sturgeon speared over the weekend may have been more than 100 years old.
Ron Bruch, a fisheries supervisor with the Wisconsin DNR says officials haven’t yet determined the age of the 212-pound fish. But he says a preliminary look suggests it’s at least a century old.
According to The Reporter of Fond du Lac, Wis., if that’s true the female sturgeon would have laid some 11 million eggs in her lifetime.
The sturgeon was speared last Saturday by Ron Grishaber of Appleton. It was 84 inches long, or about the height of Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut. It was registered at the Harrison Station, west of the village of Sherwood.
The previous record was a 188-pound, 79.5-inch sturgeon caught in 2004 by Dave Piechowski of Redgranite. That fish was about five inches shorter than Grishaber’s.
Dozens of spearers caught fish that weighed at least 100 pounds since the season opened. A record 34 such fish were registered, with 31 from Lake Winnebago and the other three on upriver lakes.
As of Sunday, Lake Winnebago already was at nearly 40 percent of its adult female harvest cap. Upriver lakes were at more than 50 percent of their cap.
This post is for informational purposes only.
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