In contrast to the protected status of Sterlet in other states in the Lower Danube region, where catching wild sturgeon is strictly prohibited, fishing Sterlet in the Republic of Serbia was allowed.

Since sturgeons like to swim on the gravelly bottom, the present low water level in the Tisza River has enabled poachers to set nets under more favourable conditions in the shallows. This need was ...

The sterlet sturgeon of the Danube outlived the dinosaurs, but can the ancient species survive Serbian appetites and the illegal fishing trade that serves them? This post is also available in this ...

Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish," sturgeons and their close relatives are very old from an evolutionary point of view. Fossils indicate that sturgeons date back 250 ...

Gazprom Transgaz Samara LLC released young sterlet into the Kuibyshev reservoir on the Volga River in Ulyanovsk region. The action was held as part of a mandatory compensation measure for the ...

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Environmentalists of Metafrax Chemicals released more than five thousand sterlet fry into the Kama reservoir on July 22. The juveniles of valuable fish in the section of the Sylvensky Bay of the Kama ...