A close-up view of sturgeon

While at Kayak Point County Park this Tuesday, I took this picture of a dead sturgeon found on the beach at low tide. The sturgeon was about three feet long.
Sturgeon arrive in the area late winter or early spring and tend to stay until July, according to Jason Griffith, fisheries biologist with the Stillaguamish Tribe.
In Port Susan, sturgeon feed on ghost shrimp.
Sturgeon can live for up to 100 years and get to be 20 feet long and weigh 1,500 pounds.
When people fish for sturgeon, they have to release both the small and large fish, and can only keep the ones between four and six feet long. The larger sturgeon tend to spawn better.