Sailordad - Most of those fish survived when the tide came back in. I would like to have the skins off the big ones that didn't... Here is what the Washington State Dept of Fish & Wildlife biologists had to say about the event:
<<A little background on sturgeon:
fascinating species that we know very little about...and even less about their utilization of Puget sound or Port Susan Bay
these are white sturgeon (green sturgeon also exist here, but in much smaller numbers)
there are three known breeding populations - Columbia, Fraser, Sacramento
they come to places like Port Susan to forage, often schooling up to do so
they live for a long time, often not reaching maturation until their late teens, early twenties
Below provides some info on this "most fascinating Puget Sound sturgeon event of the decade"! :
these pictures were taken last Thursday from the area south of Juniper Beach (Livingston Bay side of Port Susan, probably on the Riviera tract)
he thinks most survived being trapped in the channel, with a few big ones perishing. He found 8 dead ones in an extensive survey yesterday, all in the 6-10 foot range
only Columbia origin fish have been documented in Port Susan, although others, particularly Fraser fish are probably here
he thinks the Skagit and other bays may get similar utilization, but they just haven't been discovered there as much>>
