The lake sturgeon is the continents largest and oldest freshwater monster. The sturgeon has a sleek shape with rows of bony plates on the sides looking like a torpedo. The lake sturgeon can reach six feet and weighing over two hundred pounds. The male sturgeon lives up to fifty five years and the female lives up to one hundred fifty years of age. The world record sturgeon weighed eleven hundred pounds and measured twelve feet, four inches. People call the sturgeon a living fossil, because they have lived more than one hundred and thirty five million years ago. In the late 1800's and into the 1900's a commercial fisheries brought four million pounds of young sturgeon a year to the Great Lakes. It is easy to see that the lake sturgeon is the largest and oldest freshwater