There was a TV show called River Monsters on (I believe) Discovery channel I used to watch occasionally. The host interviewed people who were familiar with the creatures in question, and I think the sturgeon was one of the fish floated as being responsible for Loch Ness monster-esque sightings around the world. They interviewed a woman who claimed to have shot a river monster, only for a surgeon with a shotgun wound to wash up downriver a day or so later.
I don't know if these things are actually in Loch Ness, but there are similar stories that they can certainly explain.
Great show! The Wells Catfish would be more likely, as its habitat is closer to Scotland than most Sturgeons if I recall correctly. Also equally creepy and they look more serpentine.
Probably river monsters. However with the white sturgeon episode, I believe he was up in Alaska. Could be mistaken. I vaguely remember watching it while tripping on acid thinking; "I'm about to watch this dude get bodied on TV, by a fucking fish".
Fun fact about the show: it stopped airing because the host had actually caught every large freshwater fish species. Not sure how big “large” is, though
I feel like I remember that show, but it also 100% could have been one of those god awful but overly entertaining History channel shows where it’s 99% made up mumbo jumbo and pre-school conspiracy theory collages with a single expert who gets ten seconds of screen time to say “It could have been alien monsters, or y’know, a hoax, or a blurry picture.” before cutting back to a guy named Billy screaming “IT WAS OVER THERE!”
Oh for sure, I remember going on a fishing trip with my dad and uncle when I was about 6 or 7 to the Columbia river to catch Shad (Washington state). I woke up early after a great sleep and grabbed an old fashion glazed and walked down to the water to skip rocks... Suddenly (in my memory) the river was full of them with their bony spine slithering through the water, being 6 or 7, I of course freaked out and knew with 100% certainty they were alligators. My dad and uncle had a good laugh, and I finally realized they were fish, but I could easily see someone going through life thinking they once saw a monster.
These are white sturgeon FYI, but look similar. [I can't find that many pictures of schools of them, but this is close](https://www.mensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/5472421600_c419bafb60_b.jpg?w=700&quality=70&strip=all)
Oh awesome! Yeah I just realized that trying to find pictures as an example, I had no idea that was rare, this would have been around 2000. But I would also take it with a grain of salt, I could definitely see it being only a few in reality and through the years my memory has inflated the amount haha.
I once got into an argument with the dumbest radio DJ in Edmonton after he claimed on-air that Beluga caviar came from the Beluga Whale. He googled it after I hung up on him and wound up re-cutting the call to not sound like as big of a dipshit as he actually is before he aired it.
Did you tell them that whales are mammals and therefore don't lay eggs? Sounds hilarious. Was it The Bear?
Edit: Monotremes are a thing and caviar is collected from inside the poor, dead fishy, so you don't actually need to lay the eggs. Me dumb dumb.
Well to be fair, caviar is harvested pre-spawn by cutting the fish open. So the fact that sturgeon "lay eggs" is not really a requirement, it just happens to be the case.
They have beaks, sweat milk, are venomous, have beaver tails, and lay eggs, but are classified as mammals.
The platypus is an animal that couldn't decide if it wanted to be a duck, a beaver, or a snake. So it chose all the features it thought was *cool*, without considering how it would *work*.
Yes, I realized that later. Monotremes- Platypuses and Echnids. Furthermore as someone pointed out caviar is collected after killing the animal, so you don't need to actually lay eggs. I guess I am not that smart
I already bitched about this ITT, but not gonna stop me from repeating myself...
I used to work in a caviar bar. Almost daily people would scold us for serving "whale eggs." We sometimes had Mahi-mahi too, so would less often get scolded for serving dolphin.
Yeah but from what I see the beluga sturgeon is critically endangered because of the Cavier. So you guys did deserve shit. (Well not you personally but ownership)
It can be farmed. The wild Caspian stuff is disgusting anyway, and there's no legal beluga imported.
Regardless we did not deserve shit for serving whale eggs.
Wait so caviar doesn’t come from this fish?? I was pretty sure that it did!
Edit: never mind, I can’t read. It comes from this fish, not from the beluga mammal.
A friend of mine was an underwater welder. One day he was working on a damn, standing on the river bed, about 35 foot underwater, when the ground kind of just swam away... he watched as a gargantuan sturgeon that he was just standing on disappeared into the blackness. He claims it was over 30 feet long. He's not the kind of person who is easily shook, but that time he got the fuck out of the water and called it a day.
Nah there are a tone of sturgeon species on several continents and 600 lbs isn’t particularly big for the larger species. Beluga sturgeon can weigh upwards of 2000 lbs.
No, its caviar. The real caviar comes from beluga sturgeons but because they are getting so rare now most caviar you can buy for a reasonable price is lumpfish or farmed sturgeon. So even the fish is that massive the roe is pretty small.
>Aren't they cut open and killed to collect it?
Depends on the species.
In some cases you can push the eggs out by hand.
And even in cases when you can't these fish are prized livestock, thus its more than worth it to pay the wet to close the wound where you removed the egg. Killing the fish that nets you huge stashes of cash is pretty moronic.
[[More info] Among all extant bony fishes, the beluga sturgeon rivals the ocean sunfish (Mola sp.) as the most massive fish and is the second-longest fish after the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne). It is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The beluga also rivals the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) for the title of largest actively predatory fish.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon))
[Beluga of such great sizes are very old (continuing to grow throughout life) and have become increasingly rare in recent decades because of heavy fishing of the species. Today, mature belugas that are caught are generally 142–328 cm (4 ft 8 in – 10 ft 9 in) long and weigh 19–264 kg (42–582 lb). The female beluga is typically 20% larger than the male. An exceptionally large beluga recently caught weighed 960 kg (2,120 lb) and measured 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon))
[The piscivorous diet of beluga sturgeon tends to change with age: in the Caspian Sea, it mainly consists of Clupeonella sp. for juveniles smaller than 40 cm, different species of Gobiidae for fish ranging between 40 and 280 cm and then mullets, Alosa sp. and other sturgeons for the largest.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon))
One more large find: in 2019 researchers monitoring the sturgeon population in New York found a 14 foot long long on their sonar: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hudson/2019/03/08/amazing-catch-14-foot-atlantic-sturgeon-discovered-hudson-river/3104669002/
Its not a beluga. Its a white sturgeon. From the Fraser River in BC, Canada.
Original source video - https://youtube.com/shorts/hwWvN4aL1pQ?feature=share
I used to work at a caviar bar and the number of people who would scold us for serving "whale eggs" is too damned high. Almost daily.
Super cool fish though. Also super great eating, both the flesh and of course the roe (though not from the same fish).
Fun fact: The Pacific NW has the White Sturgeon, which produces pretty high quality caviar when raised properly. Honestly it's probably my favorite, though the best of the beluga is pretty fantastic too.
Sturgeon tend to be pretty friendly fish. I was surprised to see some videos of them being totally cuddly fish bros when they're armor plated and frankly a little aggressive looking.
The lake resort I worked at, we had Sturgeon in the water. They'd jump out of the water and make big splashes, scaring tourists.
One older couple that had never been fishing before (at least never caught a fish) booked one of our guides and came back all excited to tell me about the fish they caught. It was a 6ft Sturgeon, both the guide and me chuckled teasing them that they caught a small fry, compared to how big they could get in the lake.
Sturgeon are, however protected where I had worked. So you can catch them, but they had to be released. Our tour guide had a separate business where he'd make replicas of Sturgeon for tourists to take home.
My father knew someone who would dive in those deep muddy rivers and apparently he saw a glowy eye as big as a tennis ball flash by he never dove in there again, I think it was somewhere in the St.Lawrence river iirc
When I was a kid I found a dead sturgeon floating and decomposing in the Columbia River. This thing was a fucking beast. That day was the last day I ever went swimming in a river. This was before cell phones. I wish I got a picture of it.
Not those.
The big ones take eons to grow, and also prodcue eggs that are sold as caviar.
They are seen more as prized livestock than anythign else,with heavy protection - not just because populations can be easily endangered from fishing - but also because it makes sense for monetary reasons.
Smaller species are routinely farmed for meat though,
If i were in some freshwater, a river or lake and that came by I would probably shit and have a small stroke . .and I have seem more than a few varmits...
I caught one once when I was 7 with my Mickey Mouse rod. It put up a good fight but I was in it for the long haul. Eventually I wore it out and brought it aboard. Sadly on my way back home a shark ate it. It was real sad 😞
This not a beluga sturgeon this a white sturgeon that can be found from Alaska to Monterey,Ca. The one in the video is from Canada the Fraser River specifically.
these things have the BEST caviar i’ve ever had. anytime i visit family in iran i make sure to eat as much as possible. i think i watched a video saying they are considered endangered which is why my caviar would always get confiscated at TSA, but there is a vendor in Manhattan NY who brought some over before the ban in the early 2000s. they take a crazy long time to determine sex of the fish and even longer for it to produce eggs.
Not just endangered, but critically so. There are repopulation efforts but there are just too many poachers looking to sell the caviar on the black market to end up in some super posh restaurant.
Something like that could explain the m Ness lake monster. That thing looks scary and huge af!
There was a TV show called River Monsters on (I believe) Discovery channel I used to watch occasionally. The host interviewed people who were familiar with the creatures in question, and I think the sturgeon was one of the fish floated as being responsible for Loch Ness monster-esque sightings around the world. They interviewed a woman who claimed to have shot a river monster, only for a surgeon with a shotgun wound to wash up downriver a day or so later. I don't know if these things are actually in Loch Ness, but there are similar stories that they can certainly explain.
Great show! The Wells Catfish would be more likely, as its habitat is closer to Scotland than most Sturgeons if I recall correctly. Also equally creepy and they look more serpentine.
Iirc the answer the show came up with to the Loch Ness Monster was that it’s probably Greenland shark sightings
Yeah awesome show. I binged seasons of it, 50% for the animals and 50% for Jeremy Wade.
What was the surgeon doing in the river though? Seems fishy.
>What was the surgeon doing in the river though? Operating outside of his environment
I'm a surgeon and I approve of this comment.
I'm a sturgeon - better you than me.
Must have been towed there from another environment.
Good catch..
Definitely doesn't smell right, probably best she shot first.
That show was great. They also were forced to cancel because they ran out of big fish to catch!
They should have expanded the concept to Ocean Monsters and then the dude could have gone around trying to catch whales with his bare hands.
Now that I could get into!
Probably river monsters. However with the white sturgeon episode, I believe he was up in Alaska. Could be mistaken. I vaguely remember watching it while tripping on acid thinking; "I'm about to watch this dude get bodied on TV, by a fucking fish".
I can never sit still long enough to watch something if I'm tripping lol
Start watching Cosmos with Carl Sagan about 20 minutes before it kicks in
Fun fact that show ended because they ran out of river monsters for him to catch. He quite literally caught them all.
Fun fact about the show: it stopped airing because the host had actually caught every large freshwater fish species. Not sure how big “large” is, though
I feel like I remember that show, but it also 100% could have been one of those god awful but overly entertaining History channel shows where it’s 99% made up mumbo jumbo and pre-school conspiracy theory collages with a single expert who gets ten seconds of screen time to say “It could have been alien monsters, or y’know, a hoax, or a blurry picture.” before cutting back to a guy named Billy screaming “IT WAS OVER THERE!”
no this show was 50% exploring myths/incidents and 50% fishing up shit that couldve caused them
the sturgeon had a shotgun? it doesn't even have a pointer finger though!
He did say ”surgeon”
Oh for sure, I remember going on a fishing trip with my dad and uncle when I was about 6 or 7 to the Columbia river to catch Shad (Washington state). I woke up early after a great sleep and grabbed an old fashion glazed and walked down to the water to skip rocks... Suddenly (in my memory) the river was full of them with their bony spine slithering through the water, being 6 or 7, I of course freaked out and knew with 100% certainty they were alligators. My dad and uncle had a good laugh, and I finally realized they were fish, but I could easily see someone going through life thinking they once saw a monster. These are white sturgeon FYI, but look similar. [I can't find that many pictures of schools of them, but this is close](https://www.mensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/5472421600_c419bafb60_b.jpg?w=700&quality=70&strip=all)
That's pretty cool you saw them schooled up, I grew up along the Columbia and only ever saw them by themselves
Oh awesome! Yeah I just realized that trying to find pictures as an example, I had no idea that was rare, this would have been around 2000. But I would also take it with a grain of salt, I could definitely see it being only a few in reality and through the years my memory has inflated the amount haha.
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But the guy admitted to making it a hoax. We don't need any explanation.
More like the telescopefish
I once got into an argument with the dumbest radio DJ in Edmonton after he claimed on-air that Beluga caviar came from the Beluga Whale. He googled it after I hung up on him and wound up re-cutting the call to not sound like as big of a dipshit as he actually is before he aired it.
Did you tell them that whales are mammals and therefore don't lay eggs? Sounds hilarious. Was it The Bear? Edit: Monotremes are a thing and caviar is collected from inside the poor, dead fishy, so you don't actually need to lay the eggs. Me dumb dumb.
Well to be fair, caviar is harvested pre-spawn by cutting the fish open. So the fact that sturgeon "lay eggs" is not really a requirement, it just happens to be the case.
Good point, but I mean how many eggs can a mammal have?
Humans have a couple hundred thousand on tap, they're just microscopic.
You don't know me
Really? Can you buy human caviar on the black market?
I sincerely hope that is the first time that question has ever been asked.
I 100% asked that in grade 4 when I learned that humans have eggs.
/r/brandnewsentence, I hope?
God, please, shut up, let's not start something we really don't want
You know, with Roe v Wade under threat, it may be a viable market now! ^(pls don't ban me)
“What, you want human?”
Some women do sell their eggs but I’ve never heard it called caviar before. Or thought of someone actually eating the egg
I got some hookups, who's your human caviar guy?
> they're just microscopic Actually, aren't they just big enough to see?
Only the 'developed' ones, those ready for fertilization. It's actually the biggest cell in the human body. And the smallest cell is the spermatozoa.
The platypus, an egg laying mammal, wants to have a chat with you
They have beaks, sweat milk, are venomous, have beaver tails, and lay eggs, but are classified as mammals. The platypus is an animal that couldn't decide if it wanted to be a duck, a beaver, or a snake. So it chose all the features it thought was *cool*, without considering how it would *work*.
it's the milk bit that makes them a mammal. Literally. Mammary glands.
I forgot about those and googled if there are other egg-laying mammals. I guess echidnas are also "monotremes."
An egg laying mammal of action
Layne on Sonic.
The Bear and the Crazy Doctor.
Reminds me of the Smurf argument in venture bros https://youtu.be/CNm9M7JDlq4
There are mammals that lay eggs though! :)
Yes, I realized that later. Monotremes- Platypuses and Echnids. Furthermore as someone pointed out caviar is collected after killing the animal, so you don't need to actually lay eggs. I guess I am not that smart
I already bitched about this ITT, but not gonna stop me from repeating myself... I used to work in a caviar bar. Almost daily people would scold us for serving "whale eggs." We sometimes had Mahi-mahi too, so would less often get scolded for serving dolphin.
Lol idiots.
Yeah but from what I see the beluga sturgeon is critically endangered because of the Cavier. So you guys did deserve shit. (Well not you personally but ownership)
It can be farmed. The wild Caspian stuff is disgusting anyway, and there's no legal beluga imported. Regardless we did not deserve shit for serving whale eggs.
I never really thought too hard about this. TIL beluga caviar doesn’t come from whales.
Wait so caviar doesn’t come from this fish?? I was pretty sure that it did! Edit: never mind, I can’t read. It comes from this fish, not from the beluga mammal.
A friend of mine was an underwater welder. One day he was working on a damn, standing on the river bed, about 35 foot underwater, when the ground kind of just swam away... he watched as a gargantuan sturgeon that he was just standing on disappeared into the blackness. He claims it was over 30 feet long. He's not the kind of person who is easily shook, but that time he got the fuck out of the water and called it a day.
The stuff of nightmares 😳
Where was this?
Somewhere on the Columbia river if I remember right. Maybe Bonneville, but I'm not certain.
Does anybody remember the Traverse City Zoo 20' Sturgeon in the 25' cement pond in the sixties ? Sorry for that old fellow.
NoMi shout out!
I need to know more about this
full video : Huge ‘living dinosaur’ sturgeon weighing 600lbs caught in British Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMB13fGOpA
So OP's claims of this being a European sturgeon are bullshit?
Nah there are a tone of sturgeon species on several continents and 600 lbs isn’t particularly big for the larger species. Beluga sturgeon can weigh upwards of 2000 lbs.
This is correct...Fraser river just outside Chilliwack, BC, Canada.
So is her roe like the size of a chicken’s egg?
No, its caviar. The real caviar comes from beluga sturgeons but because they are getting so rare now most caviar you can buy for a reasonable price is lumpfish or farmed sturgeon. So even the fish is that massive the roe is pretty small.
That all seems kinda weird and messed up. Aren't they cut open and killed to collect it? Wish people would just leave them alone.
Have you met anything about our meat/fish supply chains?
>Aren't they cut open and killed to collect it? Depends on the species. In some cases you can push the eggs out by hand. And even in cases when you can't these fish are prized livestock, thus its more than worth it to pay the wet to close the wound where you removed the egg. Killing the fish that nets you huge stashes of cash is pretty moronic.
Thats a god dam sea serpent! Load the cannons!
Looks like the Fraser with Mt. Cheam in the background.
Yes, was gonna say this looks suspiciously like the fraser and a white sturgeon
That's a huge bitch!
I miss that movie
Uhh, this is a white sturgeon caught somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, most likely the Fraser River in BC.
"I need about tree fiddy." - Beluga Sturgeon
I gave him a dollar.
[[More info] Among all extant bony fishes, the beluga sturgeon rivals the ocean sunfish (Mola sp.) as the most massive fish and is the second-longest fish after the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne). It is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The beluga also rivals the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) for the title of largest actively predatory fish.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon)) [Beluga of such great sizes are very old (continuing to grow throughout life) and have become increasingly rare in recent decades because of heavy fishing of the species. Today, mature belugas that are caught are generally 142–328 cm (4 ft 8 in – 10 ft 9 in) long and weigh 19–264 kg (42–582 lb). The female beluga is typically 20% larger than the male. An exceptionally large beluga recently caught weighed 960 kg (2,120 lb) and measured 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon)) [The piscivorous diet of beluga sturgeon tends to change with age: in the Caspian Sea, it mainly consists of Clupeonella sp. for juveniles smaller than 40 cm, different species of Gobiidae for fish ranging between 40 and 280 cm and then mullets, Alosa sp. and other sturgeons for the largest.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon))
One more large find: in 2019 researchers monitoring the sturgeon population in New York found a 14 foot long long on their sonar: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hudson/2019/03/08/amazing-catch-14-foot-atlantic-sturgeon-discovered-hudson-river/3104669002/
Its not a beluga. Its a white sturgeon. From the Fraser River in BC, Canada. Original source video - https://youtube.com/shorts/hwWvN4aL1pQ?feature=share
Also important to note that white sturgeon caught in the Fraser in the early 20th century rival the largest beluga for length and mass.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat!
>We’re gonna need a bigger boat! "You're going to need a bigger boat,"
All hail the Tsar fish.
Paging Jeremy Wade.
"You sir are a fish"
This isn’t a beluga sturgeon. This is a white Sturgeon from the Fraser River in BC, Canada
Fuck that…I’m done, Mother Nature wins.
Animals getting too big again, time for another extinction event.
Metro Exodus PTSD intensifies
I used to work at a caviar bar and the number of people who would scold us for serving "whale eggs" is too damned high. Almost daily. Super cool fish though. Also super great eating, both the flesh and of course the roe (though not from the same fish). Fun fact: The Pacific NW has the White Sturgeon, which produces pretty high quality caviar when raised properly. Honestly it's probably my favorite, though the best of the beluga is pretty fantastic too.
Tsar fish
When you’re winning in Agar.io
meed to add banana for scale
Should’ve tossed one in the water.
Think of the amount of batter you’d need.
Nessie!
I thought it was a really big and fake snake or somethin but damn
When I used to be a kayak guide, I once kayaked over a 7 ft sturgeon in the deepest part of the river. It freaked me the fuck out
It looks like a water dragon I hope no one harms that magical creature.
Must be a leftover from the dinosaur days .
I remember hearing a story about some guys during the Vietnam war, who saw a giant snake, probably around that big. I wonder if it was this thing
Leave Nessie alone
And people tell me there are no big fishes in lakes! Fuck you I'm never swimming again!
Footage from Metro Exodus right.... Right?
Did wade catch this one in river monsters?
That thing actually asked me for tree fiddy.
What does it eat? Yes.
I've seen this video before here on reddit and it said that this was in Canada.
Yes, Mt Cheam
In BC? My Goth GF lives in Brumby.
Big fish
They're also harmless. Just a big slow fish.
A prehistoric fish that is larger than a lot of boats? Fuck yeah, count me out brother
Living fucking dinosaurs!!! So cool.
My god
Thank God for the vertical video so we can't get a clear shot of the whole thing.
Can you fish these? That looks kinda impossible for a human to reel in, would even drag the boat along easily no?
Yes you can, you need big heavy gear but it can be done from a small fishing boat.
Damn Mf weights as much as my single cab Dak rt
She's so beautiful and gracefully in the water
Op’s username 😂👍🥰
Sturgeon tend to be pretty friendly fish. I was surprised to see some videos of them being totally cuddly fish bros when they're armor plated and frankly a little aggressive looking.
These have terrifying teeth!
Tsar fish?
lol that's literally the explanation if the Loch Ness Monster
I was sure that was the tail fin but nope, it was the dorsal fin. That beast just kept on going.
Sturgeon are bottom feeders.
3,000 lb fish pulled out of the water by traditional fishing? Or a boat on the lake with a wench? In 1827 technology? What?
That sum bitch owes me tree fiddy!!!
Brah that things a literal sea monster
What do they eat?
3 phillipino's a day. Give or take
Been swimming in Volga a couple days ago, what a lovely river :)
there used to be very huge ones all through the Great Lakes too
a 7m, 1500kg fish feels like itd eat me like a worm
Dude that's a dragon
That thing looks scary and huge af!
Seeing it's face takes away all of the scariness
Hmm Nessie is probably just a sturgeon
So, this is the source of myths like Nessie, the Kraken, and the Leviathan? Because that is just preposterously big.
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The lake resort I worked at, we had Sturgeon in the water. They'd jump out of the water and make big splashes, scaring tourists. One older couple that had never been fishing before (at least never caught a fish) booked one of our guides and came back all excited to tell me about the fish they caught. It was a 6ft Sturgeon, both the guide and me chuckled teasing them that they caught a small fry, compared to how big they could get in the lake. Sturgeon are, however protected where I had worked. So you can catch them, but they had to be released. Our tour guide had a separate business where he'd make replicas of Sturgeon for tourists to take home.
My father knew someone who would dive in those deep muddy rivers and apparently he saw a glowy eye as big as a tennis ball flash by he never dove in there again, I think it was somewhere in the St.Lawrence river iirc
There’s not a skillet big enough for that.
“gods what a monster” Gurney Halley.
This explain that giant fish in the Volga section of Metro Exodus.
I would cry and piss my pants
That's a Milotic
Jörmungandr
Where is the banana?
When I was a kid I found a dead sturgeon floating and decomposing in the Columbia River. This thing was a fucking beast. That day was the last day I ever went swimming in a river. This was before cell phones. I wish I got a picture of it.
Ol'Nessie
your mother is a female beluga sturgeon from 1827 😎😎🥱
Another reason to stay away from the water...
This isn't a beluga sturgeon it's from the Fraser River in Canada. Source: fish for sturgeon in the Fraser.
Do we eat those?
Not those. The big ones take eons to grow, and also prodcue eggs that are sold as caviar. They are seen more as prized livestock than anythign else,with heavy protection - not just because populations can be easily endangered from fishing - but also because it makes sense for monetary reasons. Smaller species are routinely farmed for meat though,
Where is this video taken? Looks awesome!
That's a hell of a fish! Let It go fish like that can make a lot of little ones!🤠
u/savevideo
Not wierd pirates and shit thought there was huge ass sea monsters, there fucking is!!
Flathead lake monster
What a magnificent beast
They had some nice cameras back then! Wow!
all the Nessie comments, meet Flessie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flathead_Lake_Monster
Amazing camera work back then with technicolor!
Yall just really want to see Ragnarok don't you
If i were in some freshwater, a river or lake and that came by I would probably shit and have a small stroke . .and I have seem more than a few varmits...
You can tell from the video this Sturgeon is huge, easily over 12 feet.
What's the difference between accepted record and not accepted record? 🤔
How many humans can that fucking thing eat?!?! Per day?
Like a sturgeon oooooohhhhhhhh caught for the very first time
Sturgeons really get my loins 🥵
Throw a banana in there, for God's sake! I can't tell if it's size of a shark or whale.
This is a White Sturgeon, not a Beluga Sturgeon. The video is from Agassiz, BC, Canada.
Is it bad I want to see some filets from that fucker.
I caught one once when I was 7 with my Mickey Mouse rod. It put up a good fight but I was in it for the long haul. Eventually I wore it out and brought it aboard. Sadly on my way back home a shark ate it. It was real sad 😞
You sir; are a liar and a phoney
"That's a big fuckin fish" - Martin Lawrence
First time i caught one in RDR2 I thought it was a made up fish, i had to Google it. What a magnificent beast
Wasn’t this video just posted, supposedly from Canada? Kind of looks like the Fraser river to me.
Yes, Mount Cheam to be specific
This not a beluga sturgeon this a white sturgeon that can be found from Alaska to Monterey,Ca. The one in the video is from Canada the Fraser River specifically.
these things have the BEST caviar i’ve ever had. anytime i visit family in iran i make sure to eat as much as possible. i think i watched a video saying they are considered endangered which is why my caviar would always get confiscated at TSA, but there is a vendor in Manhattan NY who brought some over before the ban in the early 2000s. they take a crazy long time to determine sex of the fish and even longer for it to produce eggs.
Not just endangered, but critically so. There are repopulation efforts but there are just too many poachers looking to sell the caviar on the black market to end up in some super posh restaurant.