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ed wrote:
Wow thats very interesting, my understanding is up here on the columbia
river we have a lot of sturgeons. Will have to do some more checking....
Thanks for the info


There is an active sturgeon fishery down that way.

I always get a kick out of the regulations. Assuming they haven't
changed, you have to throw back anything under 3-feet (!) and you can't
keep fish over 6-feet, either. (With the limited amount of salmon and
trout fishing I have done, I can freely admit that I have never caught
even one fish as large as three feet).


Do not know about the Columbia River area, but lots of poaching in the
Sacramento Delta for sturgeon for caviar. Mostly Russians and Russian Mafia
involved. Russian immigrant mom and her son and a few others were busted a
couple of months ago. Only a $5k fine. They had at least enough canned
caviar at their home to pay for a couple of $5k fines. Most fisherman here
are really POed over a light wrist slap for this stuff. Costs $2-500 for
just fishing without a license, and these people are poaching for profit.