On Oct 24, 10:55*am, "Paul@BYC" wrote:
On 10/24/2010 12:34 PM, FishWisher wrote:

Thanks, guys.

The stick and ribbon is plastic gardening tape, marked at 46' and is
66" long. I lay it beside the sturgeon when they finally come to the
boat to see if they're in our slot limit of 46" to 66". It makes me a
better guesser of their length so we stay legal when we decide to keep
one. When we do, we have to tag them just like tagging deer.

Dale

Sturgeon? Holy ****! That's something we don't see a lot of (or any of)
near or in LI Sound. Are they good eating?

Along the Connecticut shore, we have some nice sized stripers, porgies,
snapper blues and big blues, sand sharks. conors (all bones, nothing to
eat), et cetera. If you go up the Connecticut River a ways, there are pike.

No sturgeons. *:)

It's sad, but it seems you are correct. According to
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2723&Q=325960 they are extinct
along Connecticut's shore.

An excerpt from that site: "...Atlantic sturgeon native to Connecticut
waters are believed to be extinct."

There are many efforts along the west coast to keep the white sturgeon
population healthy, and they surely seem to be. But here in
Kalifornistan we have only about 150 sworn DFG agents to protect the
whole state. Poaching is a big problem.

Dale