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Some facts about Sturgeon.

✴They eat meat. Yes they are carnivorous fish, without teeth.

✴Sturgeon are nick named the living fossil.
Fossils of sturgeon have been found and aged over 250million years and sturgeon alive today remain almost unchanged from prehistoric times.

✴They are true dinosaurs, and some reach dinosaur sizes.
The Great Beluga can reach 6-7m.
Making these sturgeon the largest freshwater fish in the world.

✴Sturgeon are the only creatures that have diamond shaped pupils.

✴Sturgeon and sterlet can not swim backwards.

✴Sturgeon & sterlets mouth system is unique to them. A vacuum system triggered by the whiskers (for tasting) set in front of the mouth.

✴ The Sturgeon have rows of spikes or plates are called scutes, they have 5 rows, providing the young great protection from predators. A type of exoskeleton.

✴Sturgeon are vectors meaning they are immune to almost every disease, yet can carry them and remain unaffected.

✴Lake Sturgeon showed they can transfer genes from parasites. (yes you read that correctly) They can take genes from parasites. More research is needed but could this be some type of evolutionary defense against them.

✴ Sturgeon have brilliant markings on the top of their heads, all are different from each other. Similar to our fingerprints.

✴Sturgeon communicate with each other using sound like whales do, the frequency is too low for humans to hear without equipment. But it sounds like rumbling thunder.

✴Sturgeon travel in pods in the wild, groups of sturgeon. A single sturgeon is a lonely sturgeon. If you own a group of same species you will see they also sleep in big huddle together.

✴Most Sturgeon species are migratory fish and travel vast journeys to spawning grounds.

✴Sturgeon skin is tough like leather.

✴Classed as a boneless fish, their skeleton is mainly cartilage.

✴ The sturgeons swim bladder or isinglass is used to clarify wine and beers.

✴ Sturgeon row or eggs when harvested from the Sturgeon is called Caviar, one of the most expensive delicacies you can buy. The saying "fit for a king" comes from King Ivan eating caviar.

✴ Sturgeon are the worlds number one most endangered species on the planet, mainly due to over fishing, pollution and dam construction. Conservation programs world wide are trying to help the remaining few.

✴ 25 different species of Sturgeon, all are endangered, some are critically endangered and some are Extinct in the wild.

✴ The beluga has organs at 5 years old that do not age any further, nobody knows really what age they will reach.
Some species, like the Lake Sturgeon have lived over 220yrs.

✴ Most sturgeon are anadromous fish meaning they can switch from either saltwater or freshwater any time they choose over a period of a few days or weeks. Most tend to favor freshwater.

✴ Sturgeon male and females when looking from the outside are almost identical, ultrasound machines are used to determine the sex. However every now and then sturgeon are what is known as Hermaphrodite. A fish which is both male and female.

✴ In the wild many species hatch in freshwater, live there for a few years or so then travel to the ocean, they will spend most of their life here only returning to spawn once they reach maturity, depending on species, taking approximately 5-20 years.

✴ In the UK waterways the Sturgeon are Classed as the Royal Fish, basically our royal family owns them and you must ask the monarch for permission to farm Sturgeon.

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