Acipenser sinensis, Chinese sturgeon : fisheries

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Acipenser sinensis Gray, 1835

Chinese sturgeon
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Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

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

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino; acqua dolce; salmastro demersale; 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).

Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 346 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 52325); common length : 39.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 35840); peso massimo pubblicato: 600.0 kg (Ref. 47439); Età massima riportata: 33 anni (Ref. 52325)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 50 - 57; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 32 - 40. Body shields in 5 rows; dorsal shields 10 to 17.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biologia     Glossario (es. 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 Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

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: Version 2025-1)

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

CITES

Appendix II: International trade monitored

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix II: Migratory species conserved through agreements

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - pesca: species profile; Publication: search | FishSource |

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 15.6 - 26.5, mean 23.5 °C (based on 180 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00295 (0.00131 - 0.00665), b=3.18 (3.00 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 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.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Molto basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione più di 14 anni (tm=9-26; tmax=33).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Very high vulnerability (79 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.