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  2. White sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    While selling a wild white sturgeon and eggs is illegal in California, it is legal to buy legal caviar from California White sturgeon farms. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Poaching is an ongoing issue, in which caviar can sell on the black market for 100–150 dollars a pound, while a consumer buying legally made caviar from California sturgeon farms pays ...

  3. Lake sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the largest sturgeon ever caught on Lake Winnebago (a female) was 125 years old, weighed 240 lb., and measured 87.5 in. in length. It was tagged and released by scientists from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. [28] The sturgeon is also present in Quebec in the St. Lawrence River, where it is targeted by commercial fisheries.

  4. Sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    Several species can grow quite large, typically ranging 2–3.5 m (7–12 ft) in length. The largest sturgeon on record was a beluga female captured in the Volga Delta in 1827, measuring 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) long and weighing 1,571 kg (3,463 lb).

  5. Salem man serves jail time, owes thousands for poaching giant ...

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    A Salem man served jail time and owes thousands in fines for poaching a giant white sturgeon and four oversized sturgeon in Scappoose Bay in 2022. ... was one of five sturgeon illegally caught in ...

  6. 240-pound sturgeon, among biggest ever recorded in United ...

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    The fish, tagged and released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crew, was about 7 feet long, one of the largest lake sturgeon caught in United States.

  7. Saving sturgeon: How a hatchery program revived the white ...

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    White sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in North America. They look prehistoric, with bony, dinosaur-esque scales called scutes, and they get huge — some grow longer than 10 feet, and ...

  8. List of largest fish - Wikipedia

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    The largest species is the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) of the Caspian and Black seas, the only extant bony fish to rival the massiveness of the ocean sunfish. The largest specimen considered reliable (based on remains) was caught in the Volga estuary in 1827 and measured 7.3 m (24 ft) and weighed 1,474 kg (3,250 lb). [1]

  9. Beluga (sturgeon) - Wikipedia

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    The beluga (/ b ə ˈ l uː ɡ ə /), also known as the beluga sturgeon or great sturgeon (Huso huso), is a species of anadromous fish in the sturgeon family (Acipenseridae) of the order Acipenseriformes. It is found primarily in the Caspian and Black Sea basins, and formerly in the Adriatic Sea.