Salmon shark found salmon river idaho near Riggins

[boneaddict]

I’ll have to see if I can get the link to work


The Idaho Department of Fish and Game shared photos in a news release Wednesday that appear to show a shark found on the shores of the Salmon River — a highly unusual find in landlocked Idaho. According to the news release, Fish and Game was inundated Tuesday with calls and emails reporting the toothy creature near Riggins. The agency identified the animal as a salmon shark, a compact species that can grow up to 10 feet long. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, salmon sharks can occasionally be caught off the Washington coast and are often mistaken for great white sharks. Their name is a reference to their diet, which includes salmon.

Read more at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/article278306763.html#storylink=cpy

[JimmyHoffa]

I read elsewhere it was believed to be a hoax.

[Knocker of rocks]

Yup. Fauci

https://www.ktvb.com/amp/article/news/local/a-salmon-shark-was-found-in-the-river-near-riggins-maybe-for-a-good-laugh-idaho-fish-and-game/277-27a511b6-50a2-40d6-b966-578abf30cfdf

[birdshooter1189]

That's a funny prank.  Someone drove a long ways to dump that thing there!

[boneaddict]

I'm sure it was a hoax.  Pretty funny prank.   I was thinking how I'd react if I found it on shore.  I probably wouldnt have told a soul, cut the head off and boiled some jaws. LOL  "Everyone is report it to the governor"

[Sutherland]

lol 

[Fidelk]

Bull sharks can get that far upstream.

[birdshooter1189]

Bull sharks can get that far upstream.

Seriously? And past about 8 dams?  That seems like a stretch to me.  To be honest though, I don't know much about bull sharks. 

[ducks4days]

Bull sharks can get that far upstream.

Seriously? And past about 8 dams?  That seems like a stretch to me.  To be honest though, I don't know much about bull sharks.

The dams is the kicker that casts doubt on this. Salmon and steelhead that are genetically selected for jumping waterfalls struggle to get passed all of the dams. How does a shark do it?

[Angry Perch]

Bull sharks can get that far upstream.

Seriously? And past about 8 dams?  That seems like a stretch to me.  To be honest though, I don't know much about bull sharks.

The dams is the kicker that casts doubt on this. Salmon and steelhead that are genetically selected for jumping waterfalls struggle to get passed all of the dams. How does a shark do it?

Sharknado

[Sitka_Blacktail]

The dams is the kicker that casts doubt on this. Salmon and steelhead that are genetically selected for jumping waterfalls struggle to get passed all of the dams. How does a shark do it?

While I doubt a salmon shark got to Riggins on it's own, (the real kicker is, they live in salt water not fresh. Don't think they could survive a trip that long in fresh water)  They can jump fairly well. They will feed by coming up through a school of salmon, usually pinks, and will jump out of the water. I have seen 10-20 of them at a time jumping out of the water when the pinks show up in Prince William Sound. Have also caught quite a few of them over the years in gillnets, seines and on longline gear.

[metlhead]

It didn't swim to that spot. It would have been recorded at the fish ladders.

[huntandjeep]

Betting money a dude went fishing in the ocean,  caught the thing and took it home to show his buddies.
 Then tossed it off a bridge and it washed ashore.

[Encore 280]

Something similar happened up at Naknek quite a few years ago. A guy from Astoria gill netted up there and supposedly caught a sturgeon in his net. Turned out that he had brought it up from Astoria!

[Alchase]

Salmon Sharks are cool looking critters 

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Something similar happened up at Naknek quite a few years ago. A guy from Astoria gill netted up there and supposedly caught a sturgeon in his net. Turned out that he had brought it up from Astoria!

There are green sturgeon in Alaska. A few get caught every year on the Copper River delta. I caught one about 20 years ago and when I was cleaning it, found that it had two radio transmitters in glass tubes implanted in it's stomach. There was a tag on one of them with the name of Dr Pete Klimley ant the University of Cal Davis. He ran the Department of Biotelemetry where they studied the movements of fish and sharks and marine mammals. The sturgeon I had caught was part of a study of the movement of sturgeon in San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River.  He was pretty excited when I called him and told him it had been caught in the gulf of Alaska. That sturgeon had traveled over 1800 miles from where it was tagged.  He turned me onto a web page that had color coded graphs that showed the movements of the different sturgeon on the bay and river. Of course when the sturgeon I caught left the bay, the radio equipment didn't have the range to track it to Alaska and they had no idea where it was.  As an aside, I met a lady this summer who was one of Dr Klimley's students who took part in the sturgeon study. 

[Gringo31]

There are green sturgeon in Alaska. A few get caught every year on the Copper River delta. I caught one about 20 years ago and when I was cleaning it, found that it had two radio transmitters in glass tubes implanted in it's stomach. There was a tag on one of them with the name of Dr Pete Klimley ant the University of Cal Davis. He ran the Department of Biotelemetry where they studied the movements of fish and sharks and marine mammals. The sturgeon I had caught was part of a study of the movement of sturgeon in San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River.  He was pretty excited when I called him and told him it had been caught in the gulf of Alaska. That sturgeon had traveled over 1800 miles from where it was tagged.  He turned me onto a web page that had color coded graphs that showed the movements of the different sturgeon on the bay and river. Of course when the sturgeon I caught left the bay, the radio equipment didn't have the range to track it to Alaska and they had no idea where it was.  As an aside, I met a lady this summer who was one of Dr Klimley's students who took part in the sturgeon study.

That's cool stuff 

[Encore 280]

That's an incredible journey for a critter to be able to navigate that far north! If I remember right I think the one in Naknek was a white sturgeon.

[boneaddict]

That is really cool stuff.  Neat that he shared study information with you.