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  2. Russian sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    The Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), also known as the diamond sturgeon or Danube sturgeon, is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. It is also found in the Caspian Sea. This fish can grow up to about 235 cm ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Sturgeon - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    (11) Diamond (4.5 pt, 1.5875 mm). Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry . As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [ 1 ] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [ 2 ]

  6. Pseudoscaphirhynchus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Beluga (sturgeon) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Angling records in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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, 206 days [68] * Note 8 European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) Note 3. 388 lb: Alec Allen: 1932: River Towy, Nantgaredig: Carmarthenshire, Wales: 92 years, 183 days [69] [70] Note 1 * Note 8

  9. Sterlet - Wikipedia

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    The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) is a relatively small species of sturgeon from Eurasia native to large rivers that flow into the Black Sea, Azov Sea, and Caspian Sea, as well as rivers in Siberia as far east as Yenisei. Populations migrating between fresh and salt water have been extirpated. [1] It is also known as the sterlet sturgeon.