Published 08:24 IST, March 21st 2022

Canada: Fisherman catches gigantic 10.5-foot-long fish possibly over 100 years old

Recently, a fisherman named Yves Bisson from Canada found a huge 10.5-feet-long sturgeon, which is a fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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In a breathtaking incident, a fisherman named Yves Bisson from Canada found a huge 10.5-feet-long sturgeon, which is a fish belonging to family Acipenseridae. fish is also kwn as ‘living disaur.' A video is circulating on internet featuring  fisherman struggling to handle huge fish. video is from British Columbia, Canada.

It was shared on microblogging site Twitter by a Twitter user named Rajiv with caption, "250 kg sturgeon caught in Canada giant was captured in British Columbia, measured, RFID-tagged, and released. According to experts, fish is over 100 years old." 20-second clip starts with fisherman Yves Bisson holding fish saying, "Check this out. This fish is ten and a half feet, probably 600 maybe 600 pounds. We were just able to tag, it's probably never been caught and we are going to release it back into river." He n releases colossal fish back into water.

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Netizens astonished by fish's size

video was shared two days ago on March 18 and since n it has received more than 11 thousand views with over 500 likes and 120 retweets. It has also invited a huge number of comments from people who were astonished by sea creature's size. One Twitter user commented, "I'm so proud of this man,he is full of compassion n kindness,may god bless him" while ar person wrote, "Damn that fish came in just to say hi and went back into water."

 

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third comment read, "Isn't that fish dangerous. She was so calm that i couldn't believed at first. Even that man is so fearless."

Yves was fishing with his friend Dan Lallier

Yves was fishing with his friend Dan Lallier when y saw  fish. In his 20 years of experience as a guide, he claims to have caught over 22,000 sturgeon. He told USA Today that y all looked at each or in surprise when y saw gigantic size of fish. He furr said that y had a feeling it was going to be something unique. Before putting fish back into water, y tagged it and watched it swim away.

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08:24 IST, March 21st 2022