Sturgeon fish

Sturgeon is the common name used for some species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. The family is also known as the true sturgeons. This fish has been around for 250 million years – yes, that means that they were around when dinosaurs roamed the earth! These types of fish are bottom dwellers. They are saltwater fish, but go to freshwater to spawn.

Sturgeons are found in greatest abundance in the rivers of southern Russia and Ukraine and in the freshwaters of North America. In early summer they migrate from the sea into rivers or toward the shores of freshwater lakes for breeding purposes.

Several species of sturgeons are harvested for their roe, which is made into caviar — a luxury food which makes some sturgeons pound for pound the most valuable of all harvested fish. The premier delicacy in the world can be the tempting and truly mouthwatering caviar. Highly prized for its extraordinary taste and scarcity
caviar finds its way to the palate of the popular and well-off individuals worldwide.


A teaspoonful of a certain type of caviar could command thousands of dollars in five star hotels. that’s huge amount of money for ordinary people but for the rich and famous that is definitely peanuts, besides eating caviar would enhance and maintain a lofty status in the society and good image as well.





Sturgeon has their long reproductive cycles, long migrations, and sensitivity to environmental conditions, this many species are under severe threat from overfishing, poaching, water pollution and damming of rivers. According to the IUCN, over 85% of sturgeon species are classified as at risk of extinction, making them more critically endangered than any other group of species.

The development of a recovery plan for the sturgeon was led by the US Fish and Wildlife Service with the assistance of both federal and provincial biologists from British Columbia, to stop fishing these species.

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