Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons
Sturgeons are considered "living fossils", sharing many morphological and biological features with ancestral fish. Furthermore, sturgeons are of the utmost interest from an economic perspective, not only for the caviar but for flesh, too. However, the wil
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Ramón Carmona · Alberto Domezain Manuel García-Gallego · José Antonio Hernando Fernando Rodríguez · Manuel Ruiz-Rejón Eds
Fish & Fisheries Series 29
Biology, Conservation and Sustainable
Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons
Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons
Ramón Carmona • Alberto Domezain Manuel García-Gallego • José Antonio Hernando Fernando Rodríguez • Manuel Ruiz-Rejón Editors
Biology, Conservation and Sustainable Development of Sturgeons
Editors Ramón Carmona University of Granada Spain
José Antonio Hernando University of Cadiz Spain
Alberto Domezain Department of Research and Development Sierra Nevada Fish Farm Spain
Fernando Rodríguez University of Sevilla Spain
Manuel García-Gallego University of Granada Spain
Manuel Ruiz-Rejón University of Granada Spain
ISBN 978-1-4020-8436-2
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-8437-9
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Volume Foreword
This volume complements the recent book on North American Paddlefish and Sturgeons (LeBreton et al. 2004) in this series. Together these two volumes bring together our knowledge of these remarkable fishes. There are notable contrasts in the volumes, as well as obvious similarities. Sturgeons have influenced our lives for millennia, not just in fisheries but also in art, economics and mythology. Perhaps we would think first of sturgeon caviar, and its incredible history (Saffron 2002, Vecsei 2005). That story certainly brings together much of what sturgeon species have in common. All sturgeon species have a long biological history. We are still deciphering that history, with a combination of techniques as traditional as morphology and as modern as molecular genetics. Sturgeons also have a long, and mostly sad, history where humans are concerned. All that history, and much more, is presented in this volume. Of course all sturgeons appear very similar, even to the trained eye. Every textbook of ichthyology shows the requisite line drawing and lists the common morphological features of sturgeons. Their obvious similarities also include the history of exploitation, habitat degradation and seriously depleted native populations of virtually every species. This volume goes well beyond a simple compilation of those similarities and concerns. This volume originated from a meeting of researchers from Asia, Europe and America, held in Spain in 2005 to address the fundamental concerns of conservation and restoration of sturgeons. Those researchers, with some other invited authors
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