![]() The Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society says white sturgeon can live well over 150 years, and can grow up to six metres in length. Species living in the Nechako River, Upper Columbia River, Upper Fraser River and Upper Kootenay River are all protected by the federal act. In a critical state of decline in some parts of B.C., the bottom-feeding fish is among the wildlife protected under the Species at Risk Act. Guides from the lodge monitored the sturgeon, making sure it was ready for release, Wisse said.Īccording to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, white sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in Canada, and they've existed relatively unchanged for millions of years. When the fish was finally brought in, it was measured, scanned, tagged and released. ![]() It took more than an hour to land the "monster sturgeon," Wisse said, in part because the three that took turns had to manoeuver around bridge pillars and an island, all while the boat struck parts of sunken trees. Its age is not known, but she estimated it could be more than 100 years old, given its size. She said the fish had never been tagged before, so this may have been the first time it was caught. However, it’s very intriguing that if the whole thing was merely someone’s idea of a hoax or a means to promote the power of the Christian God they should have chosen, of all possible places in Scotland, the River Ness as the site of the action and death. ![]() "Catches like this are extremely rare and always exciting to be a part of," Kate Wisse said in an email Tuesday. The skeptic might say that this story and the accompanying death by a river monster is nothing but a piece of folklore. ![]() Could there be some truth behind the legendary Water Mama, which is said to be responsible for chilling reports of people vanishing, with their bodies never to have been found? Locals believe this long-haired, white-skinned creature lures people from the surface and drags them down into the depths.An ancient fish caught in B.C.'s Fraser River recently is being described as an "extremely rare" catch.Ī group guided by staff at the Fraser River Lodge managed to catch and reel in an 3.5-metre-long, or 11.5-foot-long, white sturgeon in an area near Agassiz.Ī representative of the lodge told CTV News the fish measured 56 inches around, and weighed more than 800 pounds. * Body Snatcher: In the remote rivers of Guyana, Jeremy is on the hunt for a new candidate for largest freshwater ‘fish’ in the world – a predatory freshwater mermaid. * River Of Blood: A brutal underwater mutilation of a young man leads Jeremy to a face-to-face confrontation with one of South America’s greatest freshwater fighting fish that slashes and stalks its prey while living in one of Argentina’s most dangerous waterways. Can they get Jeremy closer to the terrifying beast he has come this far to find? It seems they have a unique and death-defying way of catching these culprits. * Jungle Terminator: Three mysterious deaths in Peru, Colombia and Brazil leave Jeremy with no choice but to cross dangerous borders and pass through territories of warring tribes to live with the Matis – a mysterious, secretive tribe, deep in the Brazilian Amazon. Could all these three factors be connected? To solve this mystery, Jeremy confronts one of his biggest fears and encounters a river monster that he has never dealt with before. He soon learns the dead body is only the tip of the iceberg – there has also been a spate of unexplained disappearances and people have seen a huge unknown creature patrolling the water. * Bone Crusher: When a corpse with highly unusual injuries is found, Jeremy instinctively knows that he is on the trail of possibly a new monster. “Now, I’m returning to solve the mission of a lifetime to spend an entire year going farther, deeper and more remote than I’ve even been before.” “I’ve been fishing the world for decades, but it’s the Amazon that keeps calling me back,” notes Jeremy. These tropical waters are so abundant that the concentration of fish species is 10,000 times that of the ocean, and this includes some very real RIVER MONSTERS. The amount of water flowing through the Amazon is greater than the flow of Ganges, Congo, Mississippi, Nile and Yangtze – combined. on Discovery Channel, the six-part series is one of his most challenging, with Jeremy having to travel over the course of a year to extremely remote locations across the Amazon to get to the bottom of inexplicable mysteries surrounding some of the deadliest human attacks by the most vicious RIVER MONSTERS on the planet. MANILA, Philippines – The Amazon River is the hunting ground for a terrifying line-up of the world’s most ferocious RIVER MONSTERS a river this dangerous will not give up its secrets without a fight…Extreme angler, freshwater detective and biologist Jeremy Wade takes viewers on an all-new spine-tingling, mystery-filled freshwater monster hunting expedition in River Monsters 6. Extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade takes spine-chilling monster fishing adventures to find out whether these freshwater mysteries are all tales or frightening facts.
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