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	Sturgeon Conservation Society
		Sturgeon are among the oldest fishes in the world, swimming in lakes and rivers since dinosaurs roamed the shores.
		“Sturgeon scientists, researchers, fishermen, aquaculturalists and conservationists have a common goal, which is to ensure the survival of sturgeon worldwide,” said Binkowski, fisheries biologist with the UW Sea Grant Institute.
		The idea for the World Sturgeon Conservation Society grew out of an international sturgeon symposium held in Wisconsin in July 2001, cosponsored by the UW Sea Grant Institute and the WDNR, among others.
	www.seagrant.wisc.edu /communications/news_releases/2003/sturgeon.html (633 words)

	Sturgeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sturgeon is included as a royal fish in an act of King Edward II, although it probably only rarely graces the royal table of the present period, or even that of the lord mayor of London, who can claim all sturgeons caught in the Thames above London Bridge.
		Where sturgeons are caught in large quantities, as on the rivers of southern Russia and on the great lakes of North America, their flesh is dried, smoked or salted.
		The sturgeons of the lakes are unable to migrate to the sea, whilst those below Niagara Falls are great wanderers; and it is quite possible that a specimen of this species said to have been obtained from the Firth of Tay was really captured on the coast of Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sturgeon (1367 words)

	STURGEON GENERAL: Woman's Devotion To Prehistoric Fish Is Catchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Archambo is the founder and president of the Sturgeon for Tomorrow Michigan chapter, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the fish and promoting research to help it survive and thrive.
		Lake sturgeon, one of 27 species of sturgeon worldwide, were once plentiful throughout the Great Lakes, its tributaries and some large inland lakes.
		Sturgeon for Tomorrow is expanding to Mullet and Burt lakes, Archambo said, and hopes to develop a program for stabilizing the banks of the Black River to keep silt from ruining the spawning grounds.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/sturgeongeneral2004.html (1633 words)

	Sturgeon
		England, where few sturgeons are caught, the fish is consumed fresh, the flesh being firmer than that of ordinary fishes, well flavoured, though somewhat oily.
		Caspian seas that more than one-fourth of the caviare and isinglass manufactured in Russia is derived from this species.
		Lake Erie; the flesh is smoked after being cut into strips and after a slight pickling in brine; the thin portions and offal are boiled down for oil; nearly all the caviare is shipped to Europe.
	www.edinformatics.com /culinaryarts/food_encyclopedia/sturgeon.htm (1278 words)

	Links - conservation, endangered species and Sturgeon
		The IUCN's Mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
		The World Sturgeon Conservation Society intends to act as an international forum of scientific discussion for all persons interested in pertinent issues on sturgeons while at the same time seeking opportunities for close co-operation at an international level.
		The World Aquaculture Society is an international non-profit society with over 3,000 members in 94 countries whose primary focus is to improve communication and information exchange within the diverse global aquaculture community.
	www.iucn.org /themes/ssc/sgs/sturgeon/sturgeon-links.html (416 words)

	Traverse City Record-Eagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sturgeon For Tomorrow is a local group working to create a sustainable population of the prehistoric fish in Cheboygan County.
		About 20 sturgeon will stay at the Wolf Lake State Hatchery until next May. Tracking tags equipped with a radio signal will be planted in them because little is known about sturgeon during their juvenile years.
		The information will be shared through a database through the World Sturgeon Conservation Society, which is currently being established, said Brenda Archambo, a Cheboygan woman who founded Sturgeon for Tomorrow with her husband, Gil.
	www.record-eagle.com /2003/oct/26sturg.htm (546 words)

	Oregon : Green Sturgeon Conservation
		Sturgeon are among the most ancient of fish and are the source of the world's caviar.
		Green sturgeon have been harvested by Native Americans for hundreds of years (e.g., on the Klamath River in California); however, in recent history, the harvest of this species has increased due to the growth of commercial and sport fisheries.
		Green sturgeon are anadromous; they live much of the time in marine waters, but return to fresh water (rivers) to spawn.
	www.wcs.org /international/marine/marinenorthamerica/greensturgeon (715 words)

	Society to Save the Sturgeon
		The societies fundamental goal is the preservation of the Common sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), a species now verging on extinction.
		The society aims for the conservation of remaining Acipenser sturio.
		The loss of a species such as the Common sturgeon would not only have an impact on the other species within the ecosystem with which Acipenser sturio is interdependant but would also signify the end of a fish-human connection which dates back to the early Sythian settlements along the Black Sea coast.
	members.magnet.at /aquaculture/sturgeon (620 words)

	NRDC: Caviar Emptor
		But unrelenting overfishing aimed at harvesting caviar (the fish's eggs), together with pollution and habitat destruction, have driven many of the world's 27 species of sturgeon, and their relatives, the paddlefish, to the brink of extinction.
		Among those sturgeon, the beluga is at greatest risk -- it is so depleted, in fact, that it may no longer be reproducing naturally in the Caspian.
		The overfishing that now threatens sturgeon exploded after the fall of the Soviet Union, which led to the collapse of fishery management in the Caspian Sea and paved the way for an enormous fl market in caviar.
	www.nrdc.org /wildlife/fish/caviar.asp (602 words)

	Aquaculture Canada 2003 Abstracts - The Future of Sturgeon: Commercial Aquaculture and Conservation Hatcheries
		Sturgeon are among the oldest fishes in the world.
		As part of the Upper Columbia White Sturgeon recovery initiative, a sturgeon conservation hatchery was established first at the Hill Creek hatchery, near Nakusp and during the spring of 2003 was moved to the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C.’s Kootenay Trout Hatchery at Bull River.
		Green sturgeon have large eggs (twice by volume and weight compared to white sturgeon), and all females had oocytes in an advanced stage of germinal vesicle migration (polarization index <0.08), indicating spawning readiness.
	www.aquacultureassociation.ca /ac03/abstracts/sturgeon.htm (1516 words)

	DNR News (Feb. 25, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Local conservation wardens have also been concerned because over the past decade they have seen a fair number of anglers mistakenly harvest juvenile lake sturgeon they thought were shovelnose sturgeon.
		That meeting brought sturgeon biologists and fisheries experts from all over the world to Wisconsin and highlighted Wisconsin s successful program to protect and increase its population of lake sturgeon in Lake Winnebago.
		Sturgeon, one of the world s oldest group of living fishes, is well known for its delicate flesh and world famous roe or caviar.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/news/on/2003/ON030225.htm (4811 words)

	Caviar Traders Meet Scientists Over Sturgeon Crisis
		Sturgeon are the source of caviar - the eggs, or roe, collected from female sturgeon after she has been caught and killed.
		Sturgeon are migratory fish that cross international borders as part of their life cycle, so international cooperation is critical to conserve them.
		This could be done by developing regional agreements for sturgeon conservation and management, particularly for the Amur River, the Black Sea, Azov Sea, and the Caspian Sea.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2001/2001-02-16-10.asp (1071 words)

	Optimus, Inc. comments
		Optimus, Inc. is a member of the Sturgeon Stewardship Council and of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society, international organizations whose goals include sturgeon protection, research and sustainable use.
		FWS has noted that while it is aware of range countries’ beluga hatchery operations, the agency is interested in learning more about the details of their commercial and restocking operations and how they relate to funding for recovery programs in the Caspian and Black Sea basins.
		The adult sturgeon that produced caviar would be tagged and released back into the wild, where their post- surgical adaptation and migration patterns would be studied.
	www.sturgeonaquafarms.com /BelugaESA/Optimuscom.htm (463 words)

	Suit Seeks Protection for Beluga Sturgeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Beluga sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, largely due to the demand for beluga caviar," said Lisa Speer, senior policy analyst for the NRDC.
		Conservation groups condemned this action, warning that it places several sturgeon species at risk of extinction.
		The NRDC, Wildlife Conservation Society and SeaWeb have called for a halt in trade of beluga caviar, large reductions in trade of other Caspian Sea caviars, and more international funding to help Caspian states improve sturgeon fisheries management, enforcement and habitat protection.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/innews/belugas.htm (427 words)

	Conservation International - CI Newsroom - Press Releases - Marine Biologist Sylvia Earle Joins Conservation ...
		Earle, sometimes known as "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General",began her life's work in the late 1950's, at a time when few women were taken seriously as marine scientists.
		What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it," she said.
		Conservation International (CI) applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems.
	www.conservation.org /xp/news/press_releases/2002/013102.xml (841 words)

	The biggest fishing trip of all time: $1bn survey unravels mysteries of the deep \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		A billion-dollar survey of the world's oceans has so far pinpointed 38,000 marine species - and identified new fish at the rate of two a week.
		Commercial fishing has damaged and depleted the north Atlantic cod and the bluefin tuna and reduced the world's whale population to a hundredth of its original count.
		Many of the world's coral reefs - shelter for rich ecosystems of lagoon creatures - are threatened by global warming, habitat destruction and pollution.
	www.guardian.co.uk /conservation/story/0,13369,1357322,00.html (1169 words)

	Dept of Water Environment Protection: Lake sturgeon in Onondaga Lake
		This is certainly the first sturgeon captured on Onondaga Lake since the beginning of the AMP in 1998.
		Jackson, this lake sturgeon was tagged on August 2, 2000, on Oneida Lake near Dutchman's Island.
		The fact that lake sturgeon are classified as a threatened species in New York State makes capture of this fish on Onondaga Lake especially significant.
	www.ongov.net /WEP/we1598.html (293 words)

	Sturgeon General ~ Winter 2004 Newsletter
		Female sturgeon that spawned during the first run was larger on average for each of the three size parameters (weight, total length, and girth) than females that spawned during the second.
		The vision for this society is to see stocks thriving once again in important sturgeon waters in the basins of Caspian, Asov, Black, North and Baltic seas, rivers in Siberia and China as well as in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada in addition to other North American watersheds.
		The objectives of the Society are: to foster the conservation of sturgeon species and restoration of sturgeon stocks world-wide and to support the information exchange among all persons interested in sturgeons.
	www.sturgeonfortomorrow.org /newsletter-2004w.php (1806 words)

	IGB: Biology and Ecology of Fishes: Personnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Provided that sturgeon reveal a strong homing behaviour, the selection of suitable river stretches that allow reprodution of the returning fish following their maturation is a key element of the preparation of the restoration measures.
		The bycatch of sturgeons is monitored since 1994 by the Society to Save the Sturgeon based on reports of catches in coastal and inland waters.
		In order to minimize the bycatchs upon the first releases of sturgeons during the experimental stocking and telemetry phase, modifications to the gear were applied and tested for their effectiveness.
	www.igb-berlin.de /abt4/mitarbeiter/sturgeon/index_e.shtml (2694 words)

	Campaign to protect critically endangered beluga sturgeon
		In response to the triple threat to sturgeon posed by overfishing, habitat loss and pollution, three leading environmental groups today announced a campaign to protect and help restore the world's remaining sturgeon populations.
		The initial focus of the groups' recommendations is on beluga, Russian and stellate sturgeon from the Caspian Sea, which produce the vast majority of the world's caviar.
		Sturgeon have declined precipitously due to overfishing, illegal trade, biological vulnerability, lack of effective fisheries management, and habitat degradation.The global caviar market has placed a premium on sturgeon, prompting overfishing and illegal poaching around the world.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-12/WCS-Ctpc-0612100.php (928 words)

	Masood Mortazavi's Weblog
		For more on the sturgeon, see the publications of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society.
		It becomes an ongoing state of the world, repeated for us only to be accepted as our undeniable and unchanging fate while responsibility and commitment recede and fade into oblivion.
		In the meantime, there are some reports Katrina could reduce GDP growth by 0.5% unless the city is rebuilt, where the rebuilding effort could actually boost GDP by the same amount.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/MortazaviBlog/Weblog/20051031?catname=/Society (3558 words)

	DNR News - July 10, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Harald Rosenthal, a marine science professor at Germany s University of Kiel and organizer of the previous sturgeon symposium in Piacenza, Italy, told his colleagues they have an ethical and moral obligation to be concerned about the fate of the world s sturgeon stocks, not just those in their own waters.
		The proposal calls for a World Sturgeon Conservation Society organization that would not compete with the handful of existing regional sturgeon conservation organizations, but would be an umbrella group.
		Sturgeon are one of the oldest animals on Earth, having lurked in the lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere for the last 100 to 200 million years.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/news/on/2001/ON010710.htm (3503 words)

	Caviar (Caspian Sea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Historically, most of the world's sturgeon were caught in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iran, with the remainder coming from China, Romania, the United States, Canada and other nations (Speer et al.
		For example, about 30% of the Stellate Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea and all in the Sea of Azov were hatchery born in the early 1990s; and a full 96% of Beluga sturgeon in the Volga River in 2001 were thought to be from hatcheries (CITES 2000).
		Whether this ban will lead to a recovery of sturgeon populations remains to be determined, depending on if the ban is well enforced, and if it remains in place for long enough to allow recovery.
	blueocean.org /seafood/species/104.html (3092 words)

	Weekly News
		Time’s running out for the world’s sturgeon population, and organizers of an international symposium in Oshkosh last month called for a worldwide society dedicated to conserving populations of this fish.
		Sturgeon, which has outlived the dinosaurs, now face extinction in many places as a result of human activity.
		Such a group would help bring regional and local sturgeon conservation groups together to exchange scientific information, address issues common to the world’s sturgeon species, and help give support to countries with sturgeon stocks in a period of dramatic changes within those countries.
	www.great-lakes.org /9-3-01.html (1344 words)

	GLRC - Printable Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ron Bruch is a sturgeon biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
		Bruch says members of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society will share research that can help reduce illegal sturgeon harvest.
		One idea is to raise sturgeon on aquaculture farms to offset the need for fl market caviar.
	www.glrc.org /transcript.php3?story_id=1856 (189 words)

	Fish & Game Finder - Articles and Press Releases
		OSHKOSH—Mindful that time’s running out for the world’s sturgeon population, organizers of an international symposium unfolding in Oshkosh this week on Monday called on their colleagues to form a worldwide society dedicated to conserving populations of this fish.
		Sturgeon, an ancient family of species which has outlived the dinosaurs, now face extinction in many places as a result of human activity.
		There are 24 different species of sturgeon, and their ranges and populations have shrunk considerably during the last 200 years as overharvest, pollution, dam-building and other habitat losses have taken their toll.
	www.fishandgame.com /features/713widnr.htm (1209 words)

	Iran Daily - Domestic Economy - 12/28/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Harold Rosenthal, who is in this northern city to inspect Gilan’s International Sturgeon Research Institute, told ISNA that the world sturgeon reserves have declined significantly in recent years, stressing that poaching is chiefly to blame for the dilemma.
		He said given that Iran has one percent of the world population, it will be considered a successful country if it manages to take a one-percent share in global industrial production.
		A senior economist said earlier that the low-paid strata of the society will be the first victims of a possible rise in inflation next year, stressing that Iran has the highest inflation rate in the Middle East.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2462/html/economy.htm (2122 words)

	Natural Selection: subject gateway to the natural world
		The GCRA is an association of individuals and organisations with a commitment to the conservation of the world's threatened coral reef ecosystems.
		The Society's objective is "to promote for the benefit of the public, the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and understanding of coral reefs, both living and fossil".
		The Journal of Coastal Conservation is a journal for "integrated research and management of the coastal zone" and publishes material on the various aspects of coastal patterns and processes, including plant and animal ecology, landscape ecology, and hydrology.
	nature.ac.uk /browse/577.6.html (10783 words)

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