Sturgeon can grow to a body length of 2.1 meters and weigh 218 pounds.

In general, the sturgeon that can be caught is usually only 40 to 60 pounds, so this catch is an unusual sturgeon, and that's what happens with the population of the species, but after the capture of this oversized fish from the United States, it also got us thinking about the situation of sturgeon in China.

China has seven wild sturgeon populations, one of which is facing the most serious species - is the "Shi's sturgeon", white sturgeon has been declared extinct. Shi's sturgeon, also known as Shi's sturgeon, there are seven floating fish, Heilongjiang sturgeon and other claims, the creature in addition to the wild, followed by artificial breeding more, the largest individual can reach more than 100 kilograms.

Sturgeon characteristics

Sturgeon is an ancient species, as also said above, is now one of the earliest existing origin of vertebrates, the biological population is now only 1 order 2 families 7 genera and 27 species, due to the life of the region is not the same, so there are differences in the population, and this creature is only distributed in the northern hemisphere on earth.

The most typical areas are: the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, the Great Lakes region of North America, the Mississippi River Basin and the Gulf of Mexico and other zones, this creature is also found in China, mainly concentrated in the Heilongjiang River system, the Yangtze River and the mouth of the Pearl River system and other zones, contains eight species, which have wild sturgeon for seven species.