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New CITES quotas allow more caviar export, further jeopardize endangered sturgeon
Date:5/30/2008

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"The abundance of Kaluga and other sturgeons in the Amur River are at critically low levels due to severe overfishing by legal fisheries and illegal poaching, as well as poor water quality," said Dan Erickson, a Senior Biologist with Pew Institute who has conducted conservation research with sturgeons in both North America and the Russian Far East. "The move to again permit export of Amur River sturgeons seems not to be based on actual advancements in fisheries management or population health. I know of no new evidence or research to suggest that these species are recovering."


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Contact: Kathryn Cervino
kcervino@miami.edu
917-612-0235
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
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