Sturgeon!

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Sturgeon!
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Acipenseriformes

• Sturgeons
• Bony scutes
• Sensory barbels
• Mostly freshwater few marine/anadromous
• Prized for eggs cavier
• Caspian and Black Seas of western Asia
• Stock collapsing (Asian)
• Shovelnose sturgeon and pallid sturgeon
• Very fecund mature at a late age

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Mote Aquaculture Park, Sarasota Florida
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The Siberian Sturgeon Easier to breed than other
species Grows rapidly Few disease problems.
Reaches a maximum length of 2m at 200 kg in the
wild. In ponds 1m and 15 kg max!
Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baeri)
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The Beluga or Great Sturgeon. (Huso huso)
Largest growing sturgeon species. Over 9m _at_ 1400
kg. Grows very quickly Year one 5 - 10 kg
Year two 15 - 20 kg Year three 25 - 30 kg
Year four 35 - 40 kg Year five 45 - 55 kg
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Carp