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The threatened status of acipenseriform species: a summary |
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| Authors: | Vadim J. Birstein William E. Bemis John R. Waldman |
| Affiliation: | (1) The Sturgeon Society, 331 W 57th Street, Suite 159, New York, NY, 10019, U.S.A;(2) Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, U.S.A;(3) Hudson River Foundation, 40 West 20th Street, Ninth Floor, New York, NY, 10011, U.S.A |
| Abstract: | ...increased demand has recently driven the price of black market smoked sturgeon as high as $ 26 a kilogram. With poachers standing to gain roughly a third of this price [besides the much higher price of caviar], a large fish could be worth thousands of dollars. Gary Hamilton in Canadian Geographic, July/August 1996, p. 62 |
| Keywords: | IUCN CITES listing overfishing pollution dam construction sturgeons paddlefishes |
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