On May 19, Ma Hongjun and three other fishermen from Fuyuan City, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, caught a sturgeon from the Fuyuan section of the Heilongjiang River with a gross weight of 1,028 pounds and a net weight of 996 pounds. The rare fish was purchased for 220,000 yuan by the Fuyuan city release station an hour after it was caught.

Fishermen catch sturgeon in Heilongjiang

It is reported that the fishing industry is the pillar industry of Fuyuan, and it is legal for legal fishermen to catch all kinds of fish during the spring fishing season. As the catch on this big sturgeon is the local state-run fishery employees, is the official fishermen, is also currently in the fishing period, so the fishing is completely legal.

More than a dozen people joined forces to pull the fish ashore

Fuyuan City Aquatic Technology Promotion Station, freshwater aquaculture engineer Li Guofang said the fish is sturgeon sturgeon in the sturgeon family Dachshund sturgeon, currently in Fuyuan has been very rare. If you want to accurately account for its age, you need to cut off its pectoral fin bone, ground into thin slices, put under the microscope to count the "wheel of the year". According to Li's experience, the fish should be one to two hundred years old.

Source: Surfing News