A 19-YEAR-OLD angler from Atlanta fishing with his father for the first time is the fourth person in less than two years to catch a giant Fraser River sturgeon in Canada.

    On Thursday, Paul Jarvis, and his dad, Don, were on the first day of a three-day father-son fishing trip when Paul hooked into one of the largest white sturgeon ever caught on the Fraser River.

    The giant fish measured more than three-and-a-half meters long and one-and-a-half meters around in girth. Since it was never removed from the water, its weight was calculated, based on a mathematical formula, at 400 kilograms.

    The pair fought the sturgeon for more than an hour before the fish was brought to shore.

    Sturgeon of this size are very old, said Marvin Rosenau, an instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s School of Environment.

    “These aren’t fish that were just born, last week, last year, last decade, last half century,” said Rosenau. “These were born around the time of the start of Canada.”(SD-Agencies)