SFR: Weird Columbia sturgeon story

After Jenise's thread on cooking sturgeon, this story caught my eye in this morning's Seattle Times/P-I. It sounds like it must just be what sturgeon do but it sounds pretty weird:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004422103_sturgeonball18.html

[Jenise]

Mark, enjoyed the article and forwarded it to my friend the sturgeon fisherman. Btw, I never got to cook the fish--he and his buddy took it back to the buddy's place in Hood and smoked the whole thing.