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A 3.7 m (12 ft)-long, 500 kg (1,100 lb), 70 year old Kaluga fish which stored around 4 million eggs The Amur river, an important habitat for the Kaluga sturgeon. The kaluga sturgeon is a massive fish, also known as the "river beluga". It has a triangular head with several bony plates.
A 1000-kg, 4.17-m-long beluga fish from the Volga River (National Museum of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia) Among all extant bony fishes, the beluga sturgeon rivals the ocean sunfish (Mola sp.) as the most massive fish and is the second-longest bony fish after the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne). It is the largest freshwater fish in the world.
The beluga sturgeon can take up to 20 years to reach maturity. The fish harvested for caviar are often nearly 900 kg (2,000 lb). The eggs themselves are the largest of the commonly used roes, and range in color from dark gray (almost black) to light gray, with the lighter colors coming from older fish, and being the most valued.
Kaluga: Similar to Beluga caviar, Kaluga caviar comes from Kaluga sturgeon that swim in the Amur River basin between China and Russia. Kaluga caviar is golden and has a creamy taste. Kaluga caviar ...
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.
List of freshwater fish of Russia includes species of ... Huso huso — Beluga sturgeon; ... introduced into Amur River basin, acclimatized in European ...
Wild beluga sturgeon caviar from the Caspian Sea was priced in 2012 at $16,000 per 1 kilogram (35 oz). [13] ... Sturgeon fishing in the Po river in 1950, Italy.
JEREMY: "This is the biggest fish of my South American fishing career. A river monster as deadly as any beast of folklore." Like always, Jeremy tossed the fish back in the water.