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The sturgeons are ray-finned fishes in family Acipenseridae (Acipenseriformes). This category contains articles on genera and species in this family. Subcategories.
Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) Note 3. 202 lb 13 oz: Major C.R.E. Radclyffe: 2 July 1911: River Frome, Bindon Mill: Dorset: 113 years, 217 days [69] * Note 8 European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) Note 3. 388 lb: Alec Allen: 1932: River Towy, Nantgaredig: Carmarthenshire, Wales: 92 years, 194 days [70] [71] Note 1 * Note 8
The European sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), also known as the Atlantic sturgeon or common sturgeon, is a species of sturgeon native to Europe. It was formerly abundant, being found in coastal habitats all over Europe. [5] Most specifically, they reach the Black and Baltic Sea. [6] It is anadromous and breeds in rivers.
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). Most sturgeons are anadromous bottom-feeders, migrating upstream to spawn but spending most of their lives feeding in river deltas and estuaries.
In July 2016, Sturgeon Aquafarms in Bascom, Florida, became the first and only facility in the world to obtain a permit exemption for the sale of beluga sturgeon and its caviar in the U.S. [citation needed] Since 2017, the company has assisted in beluga sturgeon repopulation efforts across the world by providing over 160,000 fertilized eggs to ...
In Ireland the English Crown, which held the Lordship of Ireland, also claimed the prerogative of taking royal fish, which extended to porpoises and dolphins.There is a record of a dispute between the Crown and Christopher St Lawrence, 2nd Baron Howth in about 1440 over the ownership of an exceptionally large grampus (Risso's dolphin) which had been stranded on Howth peninsula in Dublin Bay.
Sturgeon are an anadromous species that live solitarily or in small groups. They migrate upriver in the spring to spawn. Sturgeons tend to inhabit the shallow waters of coastal shelves, coastal and estuarine areas on soft bottom in the sea, and can live down to a depth of 160 ft (49 m).
Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae. [5] It is endemic to China and today restricted to the Yangtze River basin, [ 1 ] but was also recorded from the Yellow River basin in the past.