Columbia River White Sturgeon

Three Three Calgary men caught an 11-foot long white sturgeon in British Columbias Fraser River.

Columbia river white sturgeon. The fish is estimated to have weighed 800 lb. Mature Sturgeon can reach 20 feet in length weigh between 1000 and 2000 pounds and can live for 100 years. Thanks for tuning into episode 4 of Eastside Grind.

This week it was the site of an exceptionally large catch. The lower Columbia River sturgeon fishery in Oregon and Wash-ington collapsed in the late 1890s after. The Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Recovery Initiative UCWSRI is an organization comprised of Canadian and US government agencies US Tribes Canadian First Nations and stakeholders working together to recover White Sturgeon in the upper Columbia River Basin.

19 rows CLBWORKS-28 Lower Columbia River Planning and Assessment of White Sturgeon. Critical habitat areas are located in the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers as well as Arrow Lakes. Minimum size is 43-inch fork length maximum size 54-inch fork length.

Spawning populations of white sturgeon are known to occur in three large river systems on the Pacific coast of North America in the Fraser Columbia and Sacramento drainages. Response Statement - White Sturgeon Upper Columbia River population 2013-12-18 This large-bodied fish occurs at a small number of locations 5 in the upper Columbia River. It lives along the west coast of the United States between the Aleutian Islands to Central California with the largest number being in the Columbia River Basin.

The species has declined considerably over the last century to fewer than 850 adults owing to habitat fragmentation and degradation and recruitment failure. Today were doing some upper Columbia River Sturgeon Fishing. You may want to think twice about taking a dip in British Columbias Fraser River.

Reference map for locations of Upper Fraser River white sturgeon critical habitats. In the Fraser River system from the estuary upstream past the Morkill River northwest. Columbia and Fraser river basins the main watersheds where White Sturgeon occur.