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The Russian sturgeon can grow to 210 cm (83 in) but a more normal size is 110 to 140 cm (43 to 55 in). It has a relatively short and rounded snout with three pairs of unfringed barbels closer to the tip of the snout that to the mouth. The dorsal fin has 27 to 48 soft rays and the anal fin has 16 to 35.
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).
Lake sturgeon. Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)
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 ...
A father and son from Atlanta, Georgia, discovered just how much manpower it takes to reel in a fish weighing 884 pounds. It took Ron Jarvis and his 19-year-old son Paul about an hour to reel in ...
Globally, sturgeon fisheries are of great value, primarily as a source for caviar, but also for flesh. [42] 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]
The largest species, P. kaufmanni, reaches up to 75 cm (30 in) in total length (excluding tail filament), while the smallest, P. hermanni, only reaches 27.5 cm (10.8 in), making it the smallest member of the sturgeon family. [4] [9] P. kaufmanni has a long thin tail filament, P. hermanni lacks it, and it can be long or short in P. fedtschenkoi. [9]
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