Re: NANFA-L-- Shovelnose sturgeon, please read

dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:00:17 -0500

So, is all the "American" caviar we hear about from non-native farmed
fish? I thought it was from "farmed" paddlefish and "farmed" native
sturgeon. I do know that some California markets were recently found
guilty of marketing caviar from wild-caught native white sturgeon,
which is protected. For that matter, from what I have been told by the
aquaculture people here-in-my university, paddlefish are not raised
through their entire life cycle in farms. Before I say more, I better
get some more information, though. The Langston people have dropped
paddlefish work. I think that University of Oklahoma and Kentucky
State University are doing a lot with the species.

Dave Mc

David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm

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