Associated Press
SEATTLE - A Seattle man who came across a giant dead fish as he waterskied on Lake Washington said he first thought it might be a shark.
Keith Magnuson said he now thinks the roughly 8-foot-long creature is a sturgeon.
The Seattle Times reported Magnuson found the fish Saturday.
The University of Washington School of Fisheries tied the fish to a post and the Washington state Fish and Wildlife Department plans to send a biologist to look at it.
Fish and Wildlife biologist Annette Hoffman in the north Seattle suburb of Mill Creek said a sturgeon "is not a common fish to find in the lake."
She said one found in 1987 was 11 feet long and weighed 640 pounds.
Hoffman said the deep water bottom-feeders commonly migrate up and down the Columbia River.
