Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga sturgeon swimming in front of him. Once he sneaked close enough, ...

The beluga sturgeon is a large and long-lived species of freshwater fish native to the temperate waters of the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Although the beluga sturgeon shares its name with the more ...

There is no rest for Matey Mateev in the run up to the festive season as the world's gastronauts dig deep to splash out on ...

STONY BROOK, NY, February 25, 2010 - A first-of-its-kind study of a Caspian Sea beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fishery demonstrates current harvest rates are four to five times higher than those that ...

• WUFT News: Beluga sturgeon are vanishing from their home seas — so why are they on North Florida caviar farms? "Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say ...

(Thursday, March 7, 2002) – Yesterday’s announcement by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that the Caspian Sea states could resume the caviar trade has been met with ...