Giant stranded sturgeon discovered on a Fraser River

A 2.5 metre, 135 kilogram sturgeon that became stranded in shoal H2O off a Fraser River nearby Agassiz has been given a new franchise on life after RCMP First Nations Police (FNP) orderly a rescue mission.

FNP, supervision biologists and volunteers from a Lower Fraser River Guardians wrestled a hulk fish into a rope before loading it into a shoal tank in a behind of a pickup truck.

The rescue group initial corralled a sturgeon with a net. (RCMP)

They afterwards gathering the precious load to a categorical partial of a stream and achieved a operation in retreat to recover it. 

Biologists guess a sturgeon to be approximately 75 years aged formed on a weight and length.

First Nations Police detected a stranded fish on a afternoon of Sept. 20 while conducting an separate patrol. 

The rescue took place a following morning. 

The sturgeon was installed into a shoal tank in a behind of a pickup lorry and driven to a categorical partial of a stream where it was released. (RCMP)

Cpl. Mike Rail of a Upper Fraser Valley RCMP said wolf and bear marks were seen during a side of a pool where a sturgeon was stranded.

The Fraser River white sturgeon class is 65 million years aged and is deliberate endangered.

According to a Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society, sturgeon can live 150 years and grow to six metres in length, weighing as most as 600 kilograms.

The rescue organisation wrestles a 2.5 metre, 136 kilogram sturgeon into a sling. (RCMP)

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