21st March: Yves Bisson, a Canadian fisherman, just made the most incredible catch of his life in British Columbia, involving a massive 10.5-foot sturgeon known as the “living dinosaur.” According to reports, Bisson’s fishing buddy captured the incident on tape, and the video quickly went viral on TikTok. Bisson is a specialist on the sturgeon fish found in Canada’s Fraser River and believes his monster capture has been around for more than a century.

250 kg sturgeon caught in Canada

The giant was captured in British Columbia, measured, RFID-tagged, and released. According to experts, the fish is over 100 years old pic.twitter.com/S8JrANxMM9

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It was “one of the largest I’ve ever seen,” according to Bisson, who sees himself as a ‘sturgeon guide’. “Check this out, this fish is 10 and a half feet, probably 500, maybe 600 pounds,” he says in the viral video as he struggles to guide the giant freshwater fish’s head towards the camera.

Because of their Jurassic-era beginnings, sturgeons are known as “living dinosaurs.”
The fishing guides released the sturgeon after tagging it with an RFID chip while it was being trapped and measured. They noticed that it had never been caught before in the process. Sturgeon is a common name for a group of about 29 prehistoric fish that first appeared in the fossil record during the Triassic period (245-208 million years ago) and haven’t experienced many significant evolutionary changes.

These toothless aquatic anachronisms are not known to threaten people and have a toothless mouth. According to Britannica, sturgeons typically grow to be between 7 and 10 feet long, but uncommon individuals as large as 26 feet have been seen.

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