Talk:Sturgeon
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In 1960, in the USA, I purchased a most beautiful man's jewelry case of Sturgeon leather. I read in the sturgeon page that the caviar, bladder, and flesh are used. I read nothing about the tanning of the leather. Someone in the Lake Baikal area is missing out on a resource already available. Sturgeon leather products are no longer on any market that I can find. They should command an excellent price if well tanned and made into useful cases. Please someone think about this resource being discarded.
There is a new untouched business here - but it was being done 44 years ago and the pieces then were considered very rare and very expensive. They are unlike any other leather, remarkably stalwart, find grained, interesting and unique in appearance and cherishable if finely made.
Please someone near Lake Baikal - rejuvenate this older product and sell it world wide.
Jayne Wunsch Dye (father born in Galka [Ust Kulalinka] on the Volga)
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[edit] Coverage
There's some confusion about level of coverage. The article title is "sturgeon", which probably equates best with the family Acipenseridae. The lead and taxobox suggest that the genus Acipenser is covered; however the article goes on to mention fish in the genus Huso, so perhaps the subfamily Acipenserinae is meant. Gdr 16:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Size of Huso huso
Huso huso is the largest of all sturgeons and the largest fish which swims from the sea in freshwater, but it doesn´t reach lengths of 7m the longest specimens which were ever caught (and not only specimens from big-fish-stories which were said that somebody caught them) were a bit over 5m and in fact about 1200kg in weight. A hypothetical huso of 7m would have a weight of about 3tons or more.
[edit] Number of Genera of Sturgeon
Why do we keep saying that there are only two genera of sturgeons, Acipencer and Scaphirhynchus, even though the entry for Family Acipenceridae mentions Huso, and that there is information about a fourth genus, Pseudoscaphirhynchus?--Mr Fink 03:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Update badly needed
This article is seriously out of date as it is based on the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. I have added a couple of short notes but much more could and should be said about the threats faced by sturgeon.John Hill 10:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Agreed. This is a terrible citation. When else have we ever seen a 1911 encyclopedic citation as the primary reference? Tgm1024 16:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
Should be more structured and in conjunction with subset articles like White_sturgeon. Manasl 23:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Toxicology Update
I believe that there are also some toxicology reports pertaining to the preparation, cooking and consumption of the Sturgeon. If anyone has this information, is it possible to post this please? I feel this would be a very good and highly beneficial portion to add to the information already given. Cnj6768 07:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
