What is less known, however, is the story of how it was caught. Within minutes, the photo posted to social media Friday started going viral. They also took a photo of it, which, any fisher knows, is essential. So if anyone ever caught it again in the next 100 years, they'd know it was the same one. The crew of three - two women and a man all in their 30s - measured and tagged the fish, a female, with a chip similar to what people put in their pets. This fish was caught by a crew in a boat near Grosse Ile.

More than that, it also shows how much business, climate change and the destruction of habitats have affected natural wildlife over the years, and why the federal agency is trying to save the species. But a fish this size, is very, very rare to catch.'

'Everybody is always catching a huge sturgeon. 'We're trying to protect this fishery,' said Justin Chiotti, a U.S. It is a native - and threatened - species to Michigan, and one of the largest lake sturgeon ever caught in the United States. It is 6-foot-10, with a girth of nearly 4 feet. Fish and Wildlife Service crew caught a 240-pound sturgeon last week.

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