Sturgeon

A guy took these pics last Thursday at a mudflat north of Everett.He estimated there were 1500 sturgeon stuck in the ditch.Looks like its time to go fishing

Amidst the the roller coaster of life these days, an occasional reminder of the wonders of life and why we do this work doesn't hurt. To that end, please check out the attached pictures described below -- and probably quite accurately -- as the "most fascinating Puget Sound sturgeon event of the decade"! It's amazing! A little background on sturgeon: - a fascinating species that we know very little about...and even less about their utilization of Puget sound or port Susan bay - these are white sturgeon (green sturgeon also exist here, but in much smaller numbers) - there are three known breeding populations - Columbia, Fraser, Sacramento - they come to places like port Susan to forage, often schooling up to do so - they live for a long time, often not reaching maturation until their late teens, early twenties I spoke to the WDFW biologist referred to below and he provided the following info: -

these pictures were taken last Thursday from the area south of Juniper Beach (Livingston Bay side of Port Susan, probably on the Riviera tract) - he thinks most survived being trapped in the channel, with a few big ones perishing. He found 8 dead ones in an extensive survey yesterday, all in the 6-10 foot range - only Columbia origin fish have been documented in Port Susan, although others, particularly Fraser fish are probably here - he thinks the Skagit and other bays may get similar utilization, but they just haven't been discovered there as much