Acipenser sinensis, Chinese sturgeon : fisheries

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Acipenser sinensis Gray, 1835

Chinese sturgeon
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> Acipenseriformes (Sturgeons and paddlefishes) > Acipenseridae (Sturgeons) > Acipenserinae
Etymology: Acipenser: Latin, acipenser = sturgeon, 1853 (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gray.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino; agua dulce; salobre demersal; anadromo (Ref. 51243). Temperate; 35°N - 2°S, 97°W - 132°E (Ref. 54266)

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Northwest Pacific: China and Japan (Sagami Sea) (Ref. 4537). Reported from Korea (Ref. 12218). Pearl River and Chinese sea (Ref. 42845).

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 346 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 52325); common length : 39.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 35840); peso máximo publicado: 600.0 kg (Ref. 47439); edad máxima reportada: 33 años (Ref. 52325)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total): 0; Radios blandos dorsales (total): 50-57; Espinas anales 0; Radios blandos anales: 32 - 40. Body shields in 5 rows; dorsal shields 10 to 17.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Fry can be found in slow moving waters, adults in deep waters (Ref. 12218). Used in Chinese medicine (Ref. 12166). Reported to reach a length of more than 3 meters (Ref. 109736).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Birstein, V.J., 1993. Sturgeons and paddlefishes: threatened fishes in need of conservation. Conserv. Biol. 7:773-787. (Ref. 6866)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Critically Endangered (CR) (A2bc); Date assessed: 15 September 2019

CITES


Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial
FAO - pesquerías: species profile; Publication: search | FishSource |

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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Género, Especie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - pesquerías: species profile; Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia: Go, búsqueda | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 15.6 - 26.5, mean 23.5 °C (based on 180 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00324 (0.00142 - 0.00736), b=3.17 (2.99 - 3.35), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.5   ±0.37 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 12.1 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies.
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Muy bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo superior a 14 años (Tm=9-26; Tmax=33).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Very high vulnerability (79 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.