This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Species catalogue
Sturgeon
Order
Acipenseriformes
Family
Acipenseridae
Euryhaline fish (marine and freshwater), that lives the major part of his life in sea but enters rivers for reproduction, skeleton only partially ossified. Long body. Head armored by bony plates. Tubular mouth, without teeth. Small eyes. Scales replaced by granulations. Brownish or greenish grey on dorsum. Very appreciated for its eggs which are used to make caviar.
Characteristics
FAO code
APU
APU
Specie
Acipenser sturio
Acipenser sturio
Type
Blue fish
Blue fish
FAO Fishing Areas
- Area 1: Africa - Inland waters
- Area 27: the Northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 34: the Eastern Central part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 37: the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
- Area 4: Asia - Inland waters
- Area 5: Europe - Inland waters
Fishing seasons
feb
mar
apr
may
International denominations
Germany
Stör
China
欧洲鲟
France
Esturgeon d’Europe occidentale
Italy
Storione
Portugal
Esturjão
United Kingdom
Sturgeon
Japan
Chôzame
Fishing areas
