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The flesh of the sturgeon is widely considered a delicacy, especially smoked sturgeon. Poaching of the shovelnose sturgeon is becoming a problem, as they must be 8–10 years old before spawning can occur, and females do not become gravid every year. There has some interest in marketing the shovelnose sturgeon as an aquarium species. [7]
There have been some incidents of leaping sturgeon landing in boats, and causing injuries to humans; [40] in 2015, a 5-year-old girl was fatally injured after a sturgeon leapt from the Suwannee River and struck her.
A 7.6 foot long white sturgeon caught in 1998. A. transmontanus is distinguished by the two rows of four to eight ganoid bony plates between the anus and anal fin, with about 45 rays present in the dorsal fin.
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The lake sturgeon uses its elongated, spade-like snout to stir up the substrate and sediments on the beds of rivers and lakes to feed. Four sensory organs hang near its mouth to help the sturgeon locate bottom-dwelling prey. Lake sturgeons can grow to a large size for freshwater fish, topping 7.25 ft (2.2 m) long and 240 lb (108 kg). [8]
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Pallid sturgeon have a long lifespan, living in excess of 50 and perhaps as long as 100 years. [19] [20] [21] They lack bones and scales, which makes it more difficult to establish their age and determine exactly how long they live. [22] As is true for many long-lived species, pallid sturgeon reach reproductive maturity relatively late. [23]