- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: May 3, 2011
The sturgeon never ceases to amaze folks.
The largest freshwater fish in the world, it can live more than 100 years, tip the scales at 1,500 to 2,000 pounds and reach 20 feet in length.
It’s a primitive fish that, according to fossil records, lived more than 175 million years ago. For its uniqueness, some think it belongs in the same category as the (now extinct) wooly mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger -- both disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, about 12,000 years ago,
Other just consider the sturgeon a “good-eatin’ fish,” like halibut or swordfish.
If you’re NOT an angler or a friend of a "Sturgeon General "-- with no access to this tasty fish -- you can sometimes buy farm-raised...
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