Posted on 05/31/2011 1:18:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
FANNING SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A sturgeon jumped into an airboat on a Florida river and broke a 25-year-old woman's leg.
Witnesses say the fish was about 5- to 6-feet long and weighed about 60- to 75-pounds.
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I hear folk eat them fish eggs.
Eat more than just the eggs. Sturgeon is delicious. Put a little mango salsa on it....yummmm.
They certainly do, but I’m not sure anybody eats Florida sturgeon caviar. In CA not long ago, the Delta was full of sturgeon and there was a sort of black market involving Vietnamese fishermen and Russian entrepreneurs, who would illegally harvest the sturgeon, get the caviar...and process it in motels along the highway! If they didn’t get caught, they sold it as Iranian or Russian caviar.
I’ve never heard of a market for FL sturgeon eggs, but maybe our Fish and Game is more vigilant (and definitely armed).
I read that with a question mark hanging over my head as well. I'll bet it was a tarpon.
Caviar comes from a virgin sturgeon,
Virgin sturgeon’s a very fine fish;
Virgin sturgeon needs no urgin’,
That’s why caviar is my dish!
The woman was ticketed by Florida Game & Wildlife for fishing out-of-season and not in posession of a valid fishing license.
Film at 11:00
In Soviet Russia, fish debones YOU!
Obviously, poor schooling is to blame.
She should be OK, but she may need Sturgery,
I once knew an Eddie “The Fish” Scarzetti. Couldn’t be him. Last I heard, Eddie was sleeping with the fishes.
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