Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say that won’t save the species from going extinct in the wild by 2050 Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 19th century, when Russia finally emerged from nearly a century of impoverishment under a feudal system, tsars welcomed a new delicacy to their tables: salt-cured roe harvested from the ...