Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation

445 Pages·2002·10.96 MB·English

Sturgeonbiodiversity andconservation
Developments in environmental biology of fishes 17
SeriesEditor
EUGENE K. BALON
Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation
Editors:
VADIMJ. BIRSTEIN,JOHNR. WALDMAN &WILLIAM E. BEMIS
Reprinted from Environmental biology of fishes, Volume 48 (1–4), 1997
withadditionofspeciesandsubjectindex
KLUWERACADEMICPUBLISHERS
NEW YORK / BOSTON / DORDRECHT /LONDON / MOSCOW
eBookISBN: 0-306-46854-9
Print ISBN: 0-792-34517-7
©2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers
New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
Print ©1997 Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
New York
All rights reserved
No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher
Created in the United States of America
Visit Kluwer Online at: http://kluweronline.com
and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://ebooks.kluweronline.com
Contents
Preludeto sturgeonbiodiversity andconservation
byE.K.Balon 9-11
Sturgeonbiodiversity andconservation: anintroduction
byW.E.Bemis,V.J.Birstein&J.R.Waldman 13-14
LeoSemenovichBerg andthebiology ofAcipenseriformes:adedication
byV.J.Birstein&W.E.Bemis 15-22
Part1:Diversityandevolutionofsturgeonsandpaddlefishes
Anoverview of Acipenseriformes
byW.E.Bemis,E.K.Findeis&L.Grande 25-71
Osteology andphylogeneticinterrelationships of sturgeons (Acipenseridae)
byE.K. Findeis 73-126
Phylogenyof the Acipenseriformes:cytogeneticandmolecular approaches
byV.J.Birstein,R. Hanner&R. DeSalle 127-155
Howmany speciesarethere within thegenusAcipenser?
byV.J.Birstein & W.E.Bemis 157-163
Part2:Biologyandstatusreportsonsturgeonsandpaddlefishes
Sturgeonrivers: anintroductiontoacipenseriformbiogeographyandlifehistory
byW.E.Bemis&B.Kynard 167-183
Pastandcurrentstatusofsturgeons intheupperandmiddleDanubeRiver
by K. Hensel&J. Holc^ik 185-200
Endangeredmigratory sturgeonsofthelower DanubeRiverandits delta
byN. Bacalbasa-Dobrovici 20 1 -207
Presentstatus ofcommercial stocksofsturgeons in theCaspianSeabasin
by R.P. Khodorevskaya, G.F. Dovgopol, O.L. Zhuravleva & A.D. Vlasenko 209-219
Speciesstructure,contemporarydistributionandstatusoftheSiberiansturgeon,
Acipenser baerii
by G.I. Ruban 221-230
EndemicsturgeonsoftheAmurRiver: kaluga,Husodauricus,andAmursturgeon,
Acipenser schrenckii
by M.L. Krykhtin & V.G. Svirskii 231-239
Biology,fisheries,and conservation ofsturgeonsandpaddlefishinChina
byQ.Wei,F.Ke,J.Zhang,P.Zhuang,J.Luo,R.Zhou &W.Yang 241-255
Biology and life history of Dabry’s sturgeon, Acipenser dabryanus, in the Yangtze River
byP.Zhuang,F.Ke,Q.Wei,X.He&Y.Cen 257-264
Observations on the reproductive cycle of cultured white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus
by S.I. Doroshov, G.P. Moberg & J.P. Van Eenennaam 265-278
Contemporary status of the North American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula
byK. Graham 279-289
Lifehistoryandstatusoftheshovelnosesturgeon,Scaphirhynchusplatorynchus
byK.D. Keenlyne 291-298
The status anddistribution oflake sturgeon,Acipenserfulvescens,inthe Canadianprovinces
ofManitoba,OntarioandQuebec: ageneticperspective
byM.M.Ferguson&G.A.Duckworth 299 309
—
6
LakesturgeonmanagementintheMenomineeRiver,aWisconsin-Michiganboundarywater
by T.F. Thuemler 311-317
Lifehistory,latitudinalpatterns,andstatusoftheshortnosesturgeon,Acipenserbrevirostrum
by B. Kynard 319-334
StatusandmanagementofAtlantic sturgeon,Acipenseroxyrinchus,inNorthAmerica
by T.I.J. Smith & J.P. Clugston 335-346
Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons of the Hudson River: common and divergent life history
attributes
byM.B. Bain 347-358
Biological characteristics of the European Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, as the basis for
a restoration program in France
byP.Williot,E.Rochard,G. Castelnaud,T.Rouault,R. Brun,M.Lepage&P.Elie 359-370
Part3: Controversies,conservationandsummary
Sturgeons and the Aral Sea ecological catastrophe
by I. Zholdasova 373-380
Threatened fishes of the world Pseudoscaphirhynchusspp. (Acipenseridae)
byV.J.Birstein 381-383
Molecular analysis in the conservation of sturgeons and paddlefish
byI.I.Wirgin,J.E.Stabile&J.R.Waldman 385-398
Sensitivity of North American sturgeons and paddlefish to fishing mortality
byJ. Boreman 399-405
Alternatives for the protection and restoration of sturgeons and their habitat
byR.C.P.Beamesderfer&R.A.Farr 407-417
Threatenedfishesoftheworld: Scaphirhynchus suttkusiWilliams&Clemmer,1991,
(Acipenseridae)
byR.L.Mayden&B.R.Kuhajda 418-419
Threatened fishesof the world:Scaphirhynchusalbus(Forbes& Richardson,1905)
(Acipenseridae)
byR.L.Mayden&B.R.Kuhajda 420-421
Sturgeon poaching and black market caviar: a case study
by A. Cohen 423-426
Thethreatenedstatusofacipenseriformfishes: asummary
by V.J. Birstein, W.E. Bemis & J.R.Waldman 427-435
Speciesandsubjectindex,byAliceG.Klingener 437-444
Thisvolumeisdedicatedtothememoryof Leo SemenovichBerg
LogodesignbyWilliamE.Bemisinspiredbytheholarcticdistributionofsturgeonsandpaddlefishes
Numaeis Anishnabe for sturgeon, a painting by the Chippewas ofNawash artist Adrian Nadjiwon of Cape Croker,
LakeHuron:“InthepaintingIwantedtodepictthebalancethatoneexistedbetweenmyancestorsandthesturgeon
(thesturgeonbeingsymbolicofallthefishspeciesthattheOldPeoplesubsistedon)withthefishinglinesymbolising
aspirituallinkandbalancingpointbetweenthemanandthesturgeon”(1992).

Portraits of three juvenile sturgeons which originated from the Black Sea stock bred at the Propa-Gen International Aquaculture Produc-
tion R & D and Trading, Komadi, Hungary: the top photograph shows a 71 cm armored form of the Russian sturgeon, Acipenser guelden-
staedtii: the middle photograph shows a 77 cm naked form of A. gueldenstaedtii (note its smooth skin and absence of scutes): and the
bottom photograph is of a 54 cm A. persicus Photographs by Paul Vecei. May 1996.
Environmental Biology of Fishes48:9-12, 1997.
© 1997KluwerAcademic Publishers. Printed inthe Netherlands.
Prelude to sturgeonbiodiversity andconservation
Soaring Eagle, you have angered Great Sturgeon, and he has taken your son because you
took too manyfishfromthe lake.
Joe McLellan (1993)
in‘Nanabosho, SoaringEagleandtheGreatSturgeon’,PammicanPublications,Winnipeg.
Itgavemegreatpleasuretohelpwiththe publicationofthisvolume.Theelusivebeastsitdealswithsustainedmyenthusi-
asm in the early days ofwork on the Danube River. Already then, 40 years ago. sturgeons were so rare1 in the middle
Danube (Figure1),thatIhadtoshiftmyattentiontothewildcarp2.3whichhavefollowedsincemanyofthesturgeonsinto

oblivion.
Figure1.SpecimenofAcipensergueldenstaedtii 35cmlongcaughton30.7.1967 intheDanubeRiver near Radvan^(river km 1749).
Originaldrawingby Miriam Baradlai1.
OftenIwasstandingontheshore,where about100years ago,theViennese courthadtheirmilitaryfirecannonballsat
giant beluga, Huso huso, and other sturgeon species ascending the river to spawn4. I was dreaming of arresting the present
destruction5.6 and ofrebuilding the past (Figure 2).I envied Marsilius7 whowas able to witness here the processing of
caviar (Figure 3) which I was privileged to spoon up in Russia only 30 years, no, 270 years later, and became addicted to.
1Balon, E.K. 1968. D∨alší nález mlade Acipenser güldenstaedti colchicus Marti, 1940 v c^eskoslovenskom úsekuDunaja(Afurtherdiscov-
eryofajuvenile RussiansturgeonintheCzechoslovakpartoftheDanube).Ac. Rer.Natur.Mus.Nat.Slov. (Bratislava)14:95-100.
2Balon.E.K.1974.Domesticationofthecarp CyprinuscarpioL.Royal OntarioMus.LifeSci.Misc.Publ.,Toronto.37pp.
3Balon.E.K.1995.Thecommoncarp,Cyprinuscarpio:itswildorigin,domesticationinaquaculture,andselectionascolorednishikigoi.
GuelphIchthyologyReviews3:1-55.
4Hensel, K. & J. Holc∨ik. 1997. Past and current status of sturgeons in the upper and middle Danube River. Env. Biol. Fish. 48 (this
volume).
5Balon,E.K.1967.VývojichtyofaunyDunaja,jejsúc∨asnýstavapokusoprognózuód’alšichzmienpovýstavbevodnýchdiel (Evolution of
the Danube ichthyofauna. its recent state and an attempt to predict further changes after the construction of the planned hydro-electric
power stations and diversion schemes). Biologické práce 13: 1-121 + 24 plates.
6Balon, E.K. 1968. Einfluß des Fischfangsaufdie Fischgemeinschaften der Donau. Arch. Hydrobiol. (Suppl. Donauforschung3) 34:
228–249.
7 Marsilius. A.F.C. 1726. Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis
perlustratus et in sexTomos digestus. Hagae Comitum, Amstelodami.