Catching Sturgeon
Personal memory by Kelly Morse
1987 CE • Astoria, OR, USA
Throughout my childhood, we would drive to the mouth of the Columbia a few times a year to go sturgeon fishing. Only sturgeon between 3-5 feet could be kept and only two per person. We released 7 foot sturgeon and 2 food sturgeon regularly and always got our limit. Now the sturgeon reserves are depleted.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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