Video: Giant Prehistoric Fish Rebounding in Canada

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When dozens of white sturgeon began washing up dead on the banks of British Columbia's Fraser River in the mid-1990s, some feared that North America's largest freshwater fish could be headed toward extinction. Once plentiful in the river, the sturgeon population had dropped below 40,000, and scientists were unable to explain the die-offs of mostly female fish. That's when an alliance of government agencies, environmentalists, aboriginal groups, and commercial and recreational fishers came together to save the sturgeon, spurring a robust recovery of the lower Fraser River population.

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I thought that was Kim Jong bait

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Could Be

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Funny thing was I grew up in NY and had dreams about the mountains.

Me too. Alabama. Somehow got fixated on Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. After getting out of the army in the late 50s I wandered around the the SE one summer, as far south as Xalapa, had a look at Popocatepetl, and then headed north...for Lake Louise. Got stuck hitch hiking in south Texas, was running low on money, so headed east instead.

Finally made it a few years later, on a bit of a detour while heading to southern California, and was bedazzled, by Lake Louise, the Rockies, and my future wife, whom I met through a mutual friend.

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Thanks for the ping, fanfan. Took me down memory lane.

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You’re welcome.

What a lovely story.

Your wife is Canadian?

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Your wife is Canadian?

Yes, thanks. I am as well.

[fanfan]

Oh, Duh!

I’m sorry, I forgot to look.

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