On the Amur river caught an old fish weighing 350 kg

In China on the Amur river caught a rare representative of sturgeon 53 years of age. The fish weight was 350 kg.

In China on the Amur river, near the metropolis Fuyuan caught a huge Kaluga, informs fuyuan.ru. News of this spread through not only the province of Heilongjiang, but also the entire people's Republic of China.

After catching the fish was placed in the car and drove to sturgeon farm for weighing. It turns out that caught the female Kaluga weighs 350 lbs. and her age is 53 years. A little later the fish was was sold to customers in a Chinese town in the province of Heilongjiang Heihe. The cost of rare adept sturgeon is not installed.

It is known that the caviar, which was in Kaluga, sold over 300 thousand yuan (2,469 million). Traditionally market Guyana 1 kg of sturgeon meat sells for 50 yuan (411,5 rubles).

In China not banned sturgeon fishing and salmon species. Besides all this, there are no restrictions on fishing gears are allowed to fish network. Prohibition of hunting of Kaluga and Amur sturgeon in Russian waters has been functioning since 1958. Their catching is allowed only for research purposes. Every year since sturgeon farm in the DLT into the waters of the Amur and Ussuri rivers are produced by fry 2 million for the purpose of reproduction of fish resources in the data boundary rivers.

Kaluga - a freshwater fish of the genus of sturgeon. It is distributed in the Amur basin, occurs also in Argun and the Shilka, in the Songhua river. In the sea beyond the Amur estuary comes out. Traditionally, the length of the fish does not exceed 5,6 meters, but professionals do not rule out the existence of individuals with a length of 6 meters or more. The weight of Kaluga can exceed a ton. Sturgeon also are the most long-lived of the fishes.

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