The cultured Chinese sturgeon can be eaten, but most of the farmed hybrid sturgeons are sold in the market at present. The wild Chinese sturgeon is a national first-class protected animal and cannot be eaten. Acipenser sinensis is the largest fish in the Yangtze River, with a maximum height of 50 meters and a weight of about 600 kilograms. Known as the "Yangtze River Fish King". The life cycle of ACIPENSER sinensis is very long, up to 40 years, mainly distributed in the Yangtze River basin in China.

Acipenser sinensis is the oldest vertebrate on the earth, and it is the descendant of ancient stickleback, the same ancestor of fish, with a history of10.40 billion years. Living in the same period as dinosaurs, it is called "living fossil in water", which is mainly distributed below Jinsha River, the main stream of the Yangtze River in China, and other water systems such as Ganjiang River, Xiangjiang River, Minjiang River, Qiantang River and Pearl River occasionally appear.