Many times in her 177 years, Big Fish has come close to death. Stalked by panners in the gold rush, nearly crushed in 1913's rockslide, almost stranded when the lake drained into the river in 1924, and threatened by a mysterious disease in the 1990s, Big Fish has somehow survived. She's led sports fishers on a merry chase, managing to escape their hooks -- so far. Maggie de Vries's poetic text and Rennee Benoit's gorgeous watercolors capture all the danger and fascination of Big Fish's underwater world.
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- j597/.42
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- 22
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Table of Contents
- Sturgeon have no teeth. They eat by sticking out their rubbery tube- like mouths and sucking up food like vacuum cleaners. 37
- If a sturgeon gets enough to eat it will keep growing its whole life. Very old sturgeon can be more than 6 m 20 feet long. 37
- Caviar the salted roe eggs of some species of sturgeon is one of the most expensive foods in the world. 37
- The lower Fraser River was once filled with white sturgeon. Then in the late 1800s and early 1900s many thousands of sturgeon were killed for their meat and roe. 37
- Many human activities threaten the sturgeon and their habitats. These activities include fishing with nets building dams and dikes polluting the river and removing sand and gravel from river bottoms. 37
- In 1924 Sumas Lake was drained to create more farmland in the Fraser Valley. This lake had been the home of many sturgeon. 37
- Provincial and federal laws now protect Canadas white sturgeon. All sturgeon caught by nets or angling must be released unharmed. 37
- White sturgeon 38
- A type of smelt that dies after spawning. Eulachon are an important food source for Fraser River white sturgeon. 39
- To make an egg able to develop into a new life. Male fish do this by releasing milt over the eggs that a female releases. 39
- The stage of life a larva enters after it has absorbed its yolk sac. 39
- A long net that hangs in the water and is held in place by floats on top and weights along the bottom. Hundreds of fish can be caught in a single net. 39
- People who search for gold in waterways using a shallow sieve or pan. 39
- The substance that male fish release to fertilize eggs. 39
- Rows of bony plates on a sturgeons back sides and belly. 39
- To release eggs or milt. A female white sturgeon can release several hundred thousand eggs at one time. 39
- Letter rick Hansen 40
- Dear Readers 40
- Sincerely 40
