Idaho Fish and Game rescues 5-foot long sturgeon from Blackfoot canal – East Idaho News

The next is a information launch from Idaho Fish and Sport.

At roughly 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Idaho Division of Fish and Sport personnel from each the Southeast and Higher Snake Areas responded to reviews of a sturgeon trapped in a canal in Blackfoot.

When personnel arrived, the sturgeon was swimming with at the very least a 3rd of its physique above the water. Fish and Sport was capable of seize the almost 5-foot lengthy fish from the waterway and transport it by way of a water-filled tank in a car to the close by Snake River.

It’s doubtless that the sturgeon merely labored its means up this lateral canal from the Snake River and located itself trapped by reducing water ranges within the canal.

White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) are the biggest freshwater fish in North America. Traditionally, sturgeon as much as 1,500 kilos have been caught by anglers. They will dwell to be over 100 years previous!

White sturgeon are creatures of enormous rivers– such because the Snake, decrease Salmon, and Kootenai Rivers of Idaho– and are uniquely tailored for all times on the underside. Torpedo-shaped our bodies assist them swim effortlessly in brisk river currents, and their small eyes are tailored for the darkish, deep swimming pools the place they dwell. Delicate whiskers assist them determine meals objects in the dead of night water, and their suction-tube mouths simply vacuum up no matter meals they arrive throughout.

For extra details about this distinctive fish, go to https://idfg.idaho.gov/fish/sturgeon.