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two fish swimming in an aquarium with sand on the bottom and water below them,

Great Lakes Sturgeon..If Muskies grow large, the real colossus of our fish is the sturgeon, “the King of Fish.” A six-foot long record-breaker here weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds —but the largest sturgeon recorded on the Great lakes, seven-and-a-half feet long, weighed about three times that: three-hundred-and-ten pounds. -

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a painting of a fish in the water

"Ancient Chippewa stories describes a giant sturgeon in Lake Superior. The huge legendary fish is capable of swallowing a whole ship. It can, with the flick of a fin, churn into boiling violence a small spot on the surface of the lake. Many Chippewa braves have seen either the fish or clear evidence of it."

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a large fish swimming in an aquarium filled with water and rocks, looking at the camera

The great Lake Sturgeon is a North American temperate freshwater fish. This species is an evolutionarily ancient bottomfeeder with a partly cartilaginous skeleton and skin bearing rows of bony plates. The fish uses its elongated, spadelike snout to stir up the sand and silt on the beds of rivers and lakes while feeding. The fish is noteworthy in part because of its size—lake sturgeon can grow to a mass of over 396 lb and a length of over 9 ft. It can reach well over 100 years of age.

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an animal that is floating in the water

Late last year I received an email from a reader telling me about her sighting of a strange object in Loch Ness over ten years ago. I get various emails at certain times from people who claim to have seen the monster and having checked she was not one of those Fake News sceptics who sometime pretend to be a witness, I am happy to recount her story to readers today. I reproduce her email to me below. Hi, I have been reading your blog for a while now and have toyed with the idea of emailing…

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a drawing of a fish with the words lake surgeon on it's back side

Art illustration - Lakes "freshwater fish" - Lake Sturgeon: (Acipenser fulvescens) is a species of fish in the Acipenseridae family acipenseriforme, freshwater, temperate areas of North America. your skin with rows of bony plates. To feed this fish uses its long snout shaped sword to stir the sand and silt in riverbeds and lakes. Whiskers around the mouth, usually four, are merely a sensory organ to help you find food.

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