Crime & Safety
Woman Hit In The Face By A Sturgeon, Gets 12 Stitches, "She Could've Lost Her Eye"
"All of a sudden, I just felt like something smacked me in the face," said Kerry Camargo from Salisbury. "The fish was still on the boat!"
August 29, 2024
NEWBURYPORT - What was supposed to be a relaxing sunset cruise took a chaotic turn when a Massachusetts woman was hit in the face by a flying sturgeon on the Merrimack River.
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"All of a sudden, I just felt like something smacked me in the face," said Kerry Camargo, who lives in Salisbury. "The fish was still on the boat!"
The sturgeon, which Camargo estimated to be about 5 feet long, left her bloodied with a cut across her eyelid.
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