We have big Lake Sturgeon swimming just 1/2 hour from my house.. There has been a major effort to restore them to cayuga lake and its working, but is VERY slow.. They have been at it 25 years already.. Cayuga lake was FULL of them, and they were slaughtered mercilessly... A few times I have been watching my color depth finder on Cayuga and get massive images that have had me shaking my head wondering what the hell am I looking at???
They could be 100 pound Carp i suppose, but I always thought they were Sturgeon. They were never eradicated, but their numbers were extremely low.
They started rebuilding the population in the mid 90's..
. Idiots around here will catch them and run them out to their pickups to take home to eat, although getting caught would mean a massive fine.... The DEC nets some each fall and they are healthy and doing well... I won't live long enough to see them totally restored.. Probably take 100 years for that..
NY DEC is stocking them in many suitable waters around the state...
https://www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com...lake-sturgeon/
bob
