Sturgeon

 

We have two local newspapers and every year at about this time, we get the same old headline stories, week after week, about the biggest fish ever caught on the Fraser River. Of course, it is the mighty sturgeon, the great bottom feeders that live to be more than 100 years old. The stories go on to tell of the epic battle that it is to land one of these behemoths.

They don't actually pull the fish into the boat, but drag it close to shore, get out into waist deep water, and pose for the camera while holding the fish out of the water almost long enough to kill it.

 

The fish is then released, free to hunker back down under a log boom and continue feeding until another tempting fish hook floats by.

 

Did it ever occur to these fishermen, and the media who soak this stuff up, that all these guys are probably catching the same fish over and over? They even go to the same general area to assure themselves of 'a catch'. Of course, there is one way to prove my theory and it is politically incorrect.

Eat it!