Shake Hands With "Albany Beef"
March 7, 2019 12:57 PM   Subscribe

 
Here is a picture of an eleven foot sturgeon, so add approximately three feet of NOPE to that.
posted by schadenfrau at 1:04 PM on March 7, 2019 [8 favorites]


(But also yay for conservation and glimmers of hope, just...not...near me.)
posted by schadenfrau at 1:06 PM on March 7, 2019 [1 favorite]


Just imagine one coming up through the ice.

OTOH, they're very chill bottom feeders.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:14 PM on March 7, 2019 [2 favorites]


Ohhhhhhhhhhh OK so that's how you make a steamed ham.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 1:18 PM on March 7, 2019 [14 favorites]


And that's how overeducated_alligator got "flagged as fantastic".
posted by darkstar at 1:23 PM on March 7, 2019 [2 favorites]


I keep thinking about one brushing against my leg in murky water and then just...keep...brushing...for...fourteen feet
posted by schadenfrau at 1:23 PM on March 7, 2019 [9 favorites]


When I was 14 I caught one just over seven feet in the Columbia River. Too big to keep, it felt like catching a dinosaur.

Growing up a number of family friends were dam workers. They claimed the really big ones liked to hang out in the deep near the base of the dams.
posted by Tenuki at 2:29 PM on March 7, 2019 [6 favorites]


Herman the Sturgeon, one of these days I'm going to do an fpp on Oregon's most famous fish. He's been kidnapped (fishnapped?), attacked and stabbed by a maniac, and threatened with death from a wildfire. You can visit him at the fish hatchery next to Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.
posted by 445supermag at 4:01 PM on March 7, 2019 [5 favorites]


Albany Beef is also Upstate’s finest male review. Half price drinks until 7!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:26 PM on March 7, 2019 [7 favorites]


Is it edible?
When I was younger, they told us not to eat the fish from the Hudson, mainly because of the PCBs from GE, but also because of mercury and other various nasty stuff.
posted by madajb at 5:43 PM on March 7, 2019 [1 favorite]




Andrew Revkin, the author of the NatGeo piece, has been tweeting more background about the story.
posted by gwint at 6:46 PM on March 7, 2019 [1 favorite]


Is it edible?

I hope not.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:09 PM on March 7, 2019


One of these breached right next to me when I was walking out on some rocks in the river off the dock behind the Mills Mansion in Staatsburgh (just up the Hudson River from Hyde Park) several years back. Seeing how long it took for it to go back underwater helped me understand how Native Americans and early European settlers thought a sea serpent lived in the Hudson.
posted by KingEdRa at 7:38 PM on March 7, 2019 [1 favorite]


Breaching sturgeon can be dangerous
posted by theory at 8:10 PM on March 7, 2019




Nice oblique Primus reference.
posted by furtive at 9:45 PM on March 7, 2019 [3 favorites]


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