11-02-2007, 10:05 PM
Historically, there have been huge sturgeon caught in the area where they've been planting the sturgeon in Idaho Falls. My father has told me stories about sturgeon being pulled out of the river with a team of horses, and there is pictoral documentation at the museum of Idaho on Elm street, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if the sturgeon were able to get above the falls at Idaho Falls, and I believe that the population of sturgeon came about before Shoshone Falls came into being at the time of the Lake Bonneville conflagration, because they wouldn't have been able to run above those falls. Those sturgeon in the river around Idaho Falls were harvested to extinction sometime in the early part of the century. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep them close to where they were planted.
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