Sturgeon Russian

Young (2-3 months old, 80-120mm long) Russian, Siberian, and stellate sturgeons [Accipcnser guddenstaedtii, A. haeri, and A. stdlatus) had a threshold of O.OOlmmol/1 for 19 amino acids (Kasumyan, 1994). 

Altufiev, Yu.V., Romanov, A. A. and Sheveleva, N.N (1992). Histopathology of cross-striated muscular tissue in livers of Caspian sturgeons (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 32,157-171. 

Badenko, L.V., Dorosheva, N.G., Kornienko, G.G. and Chikhacheva, V.P. (1984). The ecologo-physiological base for increasing the efficiency of commercial rearing of Azov sturgeons (In Russian). In Replenishment of Fish Stocks in the Caspian and Other Seas (I.B. Bukhanovich, ed.), pp.88-101, Moscow. 

Bal, N.E., Geraskin, P.P. and Mishin, E.A. (1989). The composition of water soluble muscle proteins in Russian sturgeon and changes during tissue destruction of varying degree (In Russian). In Sturgeon Culture in Water Bodies of the USSR (V.I. Lukyanenko, ed.) Vol.l, pp. 16-18, Astrakhan. 

Evgenyeva, T.P. and Kocherezhkina, E.V. (1994). Impact of different toxicants on the histogenesis of muscle tissue of Russian sturgeon fry (In Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 336,555-558. 

Evgenyeva, T.R, Basurmanova, O.K. and Shekhter, A.B. (1989). Degenerative changes in white muscle of Russian sturgeon (In Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 307,462-466. 

Isuev, A.P. and Musaev, B.S. (1989). Comparative description of fatty acid composition of lipids at early stages of ontogenesis in carp, bighead, chum, Caspian salmon and Russian sturgeon (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 29,342-345. 

Kasumyan, A.O. and Taurik, L.P. (1993). Behaviour reaction of sturgeon fry to amino acids (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 33,691-700. 

Khakimullin, A.A. (1988). The gas exchange rate in cultured fry of Siberian sturgeon during muscle performance (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 28,282-288. 

Konstantinov, A.S. and Sholokhov, A.M. (1990). Influence of temperature oscillation on the growth rate, energetics and physiological condition of Russian sturgeon fry (In Russian). Ekologya 1990 (4), 69-75. 

Krivobok, M.N. and Storozhuk, A.Ya. (1970). Effect of size and age of female Volga sturgeons on the weight and chemical composition of mature eggs (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 10,1012-1017. 

Lizenko, E.I., Zagorskikh, O.M. and Solovyev, L.G. (1991). Comparative characteristics of lipid composition of organs of the River Enisey and Caspian sturgeons (In Russian). In Biochemical Features of Fish Diseases , pp. 36-41. Karelian Scientific Centre Publishing, Petrozavodsk. 

Semenkova, T.B. (1984). Effect of hormonal factors on lipid level in liver of Siberian sturgeon in the Lena river (In Russian). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 24,158-164. 

Shelukhin, G.K., Metallov, G.F. and Geraskin, P.P. (1989). Influence of temperature on sturgeon fry cultivated in Caspian water of varying salinity (In Russian). In Ecological Biochemistry and Physiology of Fish , Part 2, pp. 231-233. 

Vetvitskaya, L.V., Maldov, D.G., Tikhomirov, A.M., Kozlov, A.B. and Nikanorov, S.I. (1992). Enzyme induction and changes in the behaviour of Russian sturgeon fry caused by diverse food (In Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 323, 1186-1192. 

Between 1965 and 2009, the Russian sturgeon population, exploited for caviar, declined by 90 percent. 

Sturgeon caviar is gray or brown to black in color. Salmon caviar is yellow-red or red. Most caviar is imported from the Russian Fed. and Iran (Caspian Sea caviars). It readily decays and so must be kept refrigerated. A medium-size beluga sturgeon can provide 15-20 kg caviar. 

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