sturgeon

Definitions

Food

• A medium to large

  anadromous

  fish found in the rivers that flow into the Caspian Sea, Black Sea, the

  western

  Pacific and the eastern Atlantic oceans. It has a firm

  white

  to pink

  flesh

  which may be baked, fried, grilled or smoked. They have armour-plated bodies and an elongated snout with a dark grey-green back. The females, which are caught in the estuaries of the rivers to which they return to spawn, are the source of

  caviar

  which may amount to 22 kg from a single fish. There are about 24 species but the important ones in order of size are the

  sterlet

  and the sevruga, osciotre, common and

  beluga sturgeon

  .

Travel

• noun a large edible fish whose eggs are caviar

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