Sturgeon Bank

Sturgeon Bank (49˚11'00" 123˚14'00" Off W side of Sea I and Lulu I, at mouth of the Fraser R, E side of Str of Georgia). Named in 1792 by Capt George Vancouver, “in consequence of our having purchased of the natives some excellent fish of that kind, weighing from 14 to 200 pounds each.” Vancouver probably bought white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), which grow to a huge size in the Fraser (a 629-kg monster was caught at New Westminster in 1897) and can live well over 100 years. The...

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