528 Storer on the 
of May 20th, 1838: “On visiting the market a few 
mornings since, I saw two huge sturgeons more 
than six feet long ; they were taken in a seine the 
day before.” 
I learn from the fishermen that sturgeons are 
sometimes taken in our Bay, eight or ten feet in 
length, weighing as much as 300 pounds, and that 
their flesh is eaten by them, and considered very 
palatable. Mitchell says, it “grows seldom to a 
greater length than five feet ;” while Le Sueur 
observes that the largest specimen he had seen, 
was between three and four feet long. 
