The Baikal Sturgeon is now listed as endangered.

Acipenser baerii baicalensis (Baikal sturgeon)

However, some species have evolved purely freshwater existences, such as the lake sturgeon ('Acipenser fulvescens') and the Baikal sturgeon ('A.

The Baikal sturgeon, Acipenser baerii baicalensis, is a sturgeon indigenous to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.

The Baikal grayling (Thymallus arcticus baicalensis), a fast swimming salmonid, popular among anglers and the Baikal sturgeon (Acipenser baerri baicalensis), are both important endemic species with commercial value.

The subspecies A. baerii baicalensis known as the Baikal sturgeon is a unique lake form found primarily in the northern end of Lake Baikal and migrates up the Selenga River to spawn.

Two Le Gavroche dishes, Pacific sturgeon with wilted arugula, hash browns and horseradish cream and line-caught salmon with a wild-mushroom compote and fingelling potatoes, are being offered at the Sea Grill.

The Engstroms and a few other pioneers discovered that California white sturgeon tasted comparable to the prized Caspian Sea sturgeon.

Acipenserid herpesvirus 2 - host: white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

The type of sturgeon, acipenser transmontanus, or white sturgeon, is closely related to acipenser sturio, the osetra.

White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and many other native and non-native fishes currently utilize the Napa River watershed.

Farm-raised caviar is becoming a better option than the shrinking and restricted wild harvest, and the sturgeons of choice are Acipenser transmontanus and Acipenser baerii.

FARMED AMERICAN STURGEON - (Acipenser transmontanus, $35 an ounce).

The term osetra is often used, misleadingly, for Acipenser baerii, a Siberian sturgeon that is closely related to osetra, and Acipenser transmontanus, the white sturgeon native to California, which is not an osetra.

Historically it is interesting as one of two Northern California coastal rivers mentioned in 1829 by Russian explorer K. T. Khlebnikov as hosting sturgeon, presumably White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), along with the Russian River.

The Engstroms' California product, which should be on sale to the public sometime next year at prices a bit lower than its Russian counterpart, comes from a fish whose biological name, Acipenser transmontanus, betrays its close relationship to Caspian osetra, which is Acipenser gueldenstaedti.

Most farms are raising two types of sturgeon for caviar: Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii), a close relative of the Caspian osetra, and white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), a smaller sturgeon native to California and the Pacific Northwest.