Mystery Fish

[BigJosh]

What do you guys think of this? Has anyone ever seen one of these?

http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal03180203.html

Josh

[JOHNKIES]

Sturgeon. But why it was in salt water is a good queston - I am only familiar with them as fresh water fish.

[Fly Fishing Duck Bandit]

Sturgeon would have been my guess as well just based off the pictures. Besides the question of why it was in salt water, I thought they were cold water fish as well.

Maybe a Florida aquarium just dumped a dead fish.

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[fishmeister]

Yep, that's a sturgeon. They're anadromous.

[ShawnT]

Is this it? http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/species/fish/Gulf_sturgeon.html

Just saw it mentioned on Fox and remembered this post . . .

[ShawnT]

Probably the explanation . . .
http://floridaconservation.org/whatsnew/00/sturgeon-st.html


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[anglyr]

in college, i did one of my last study projects that lasted nearly the entire term on the sturgeon in the alabama/mississippi rivers. this species are incredibly close to being extint and this does not get nearly enough "air-time". it is scary what we are doing to our natural resources.
anglyr

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[Flashback]

I saw the original article on this sturgeon in the St. Pete Times. It was 6 ft. long and weighed 126 lbs. It is the largest Gulf sturgeon found since 1897.

Heck, I thought I knew every fish that swims in Tampa Bay, but this is a surprise to me.

Life is stranger than fiction.

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