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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. 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 ...

  4. List of largest fish - Wikipedia

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    The largest living species is the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) of the world's northern temperate oceans, also the second largest fish. The largest specimen, which was examined in 1851, measured 12.3 m (40 ft) long and weighed 16 tonnes. [1] Perhaps the most famous "big fish" is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Specimens ...

  5. List of longest fish - Wikipedia

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    White sturgeon: Acipenser transmontanus: 6.1 [17] 16 Bluntnose sixgill shark: Hexanchus griseus: 6.1 [18] 17: European sea sturgeon: Acipenser sturio: 6 [19] See also.

  6. From bottom-feeder to record-breaker: These sturgeon set ...

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  7. Chinese paddlefish - Wikipedia

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    The last records of Chinese paddlefish in the Yellow River basin and its estuary date back to the 1960s, although declines were realized between the 13th and 19th centuries. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 30 ] Declines were significant throughout its primary range in the Yangtze basin, but annual captures of 25 tonnes continued into the 1970s. [ 4 ]

  8. Snapchat video shows ‘prehistoric’ creature illegally ...

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    The sturgeon from the incident appeared be more than 72 inches long, according to police. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 1-800-452-7888, or email TIP@osp.oregon.gov .

  9. Sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    Several species of sturgeon are harvested for their roe which is processed into caviar—a delicacy, and the reason why caviar-producing sturgeons are among the most valuable and endangered of all wildlife resources. [43] During the 19th century, the US was the global leader in caviar production, having cornered 90% of the world's caviar trade ...