The Beluga sturgeon
The beluga sturgeon is a very wonderful fish. The fish lives in many European fresh water rivers, seas, estuaries, they also live in some of he most polluted and altered waters. The sturgeon was around 10 meters long and weighed roughly about 5,600 kg, but now they are rarely found and when they are they are 4-5 meters long. The reason they are so popular is because of beluga caviar. That caviar may be the worlds most sought after and expense delicacy. The beluga sturgeons have a very slow reproduction rate. It will take 6-24 years for the fish to get ready to reproduce, and they will reproduce every 4-8 years. The only thing that has probably kept them alive so song even though they are one of the most sought after delicates in the world is its lifespan of over a hundred years, making them one of the most long lived vertebrates. The beluga sturgeon may taste fabulous but we all have to eat a lot less of them if we want to keep them alive.