FANNING SPRINGS, Florida — Just three days after the state issued a warning to boaters to beware of jumping sturgeon, one of the fish did just that — breaking a woman's leg.That would come as quite a surprise; not like running into a river full of silver carp wearing a suit covered with spikes...
Witnesses say the sturgeon was about 5- to 6-feet long and weighed about 60- to 75-pounds.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers say Tina Fletcher, 25, was a passenger in an airboat Sunday on the Suwannee River when the sturgeon jumped and hit her leg...
..."I have seen these encounters referred to as 'attacks,'" Allen Martin, a commission biologist, said in the statement. "However, these fish are in no way attacking when they jump. They are simply doing what they have been doing for millions of years: jumping. They aren't targeting the boaters."...That's a relief.
Hat tip to Charlie!
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