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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.
Almas: This gold colored caviar is harvested from albino Iranian Beluga sturgeon that are 60- to 100-years-old. This critically endangered sturgeon species swims in the southern Caspian Sea.
[51] [52] [53] Some species of sturgeon are extinct, and several are on the verge of extinction, including the Chinese sturgeon, [54] the highly prized beluga sturgeon, [55] and the Alabama sturgeon. [56] Many species are classified as threatened or endangered, with noticeable declines in sturgeon populations as the demand for caviar increases.
The beluga sturgeon is the largest species of freshwater fish in the world. The record for the largest beluga sturgeon ever caught is 23.6 feet long and 3,463 pounds. This is larger than some ...
Conventional sturgeon caviar was priced in 2014 at about $105 per 1 ounce (28 g) and from albino sturgeon up to $800 per ounce. [18] Other quality factors are texture – with firmness having higher quality value – flavour qualities, such as creaminess , butter taste, and brine or mild fish finish , and whether the caviar was taken from the ...
A rare type of caviar known as Imperial Caviar, from the Sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus), a now nearly extinct species of sturgeon from the Caspian Sea, [3] is sometimes incorrectly labeled as Sevruga, as well as the even rarer Golden Caviar from the albino Sterlet, the caviar being yellow in color. “Pressed sevruga caviar” can also ...
The kaluga sturgeon is a massive fish, also known as the "river beluga". It has a triangular head with several bony plates. Its body is an elongated fusiform body with five rows of bony scutes: dorsal with 10–16 beetles (the first is largest), two laterals (32–46 scutes), and two ventral (8–12 scutes) between rows of small bony scutes ...