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Lakesturgeon management in theMenomineeRiver, a Wisconsin-Michigan boundary water

Life history, latitudinal patterns, and status of the shortnose sturgeon,Acipenser brevirostrum

Status and management of Atlantic sturgeon,Acipenser oxyrinchus,inNorthAmerica

Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons of the Hudson River: common and divergent life history

by T.F. Thuemler 311 - 317

by B. Kynard 319 - 334

by T.I.J. Smith & J.P. Clugston 335 - 346

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by M.B. Bain 347 - 358
Biological characteristics of the European Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, as the basis for
a restoration program in France
by P. Williot, E. Rochard, G. Castelnaud, T. Rouault, R. Brun, M. Lepage & P. Elie 359 - 370

Part 3:Controversies, conservation and summary

Sturgeons and the Aral Sea ecological catastrophe

Threatened fishes of the world Pseudoscaphirhynchusspp. (Acipenseridae)

Molecular analysis in the conservation of sturgeons and paddlefish

Sensitivity of North American sturgeons and paddlefish to fishing mortality

Alternatives for the protection and restoration of sturgeons and their habitat

Threatened fishes of the world: Scaphirhynchus suttkusiWilliams & Clemmer, 1991,

by I. Zholdasova 373 - 380

by V.J. Birstein 381 - 383

by I.I.Wirgin, J.E. Stabile & J.R. Waldman 385 - 398

by J. Boreman 399 - 405

byR.C.P. Beamesderfer & R.A. Farr 407-

(Acipenseridae)

by R.L. Mayden & B.R. Kuhajda 418 - 419

Threatened fishes of the world:Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes & Richardson,1905)

(Acipenseridae)

by R.L. Mayden & B.R. Kuhajda 420 - 421

Sturgeon poaching and black market caviar: a case study

The threatened status of acipenseriform fishes: a summary

by A. Cohen 423 - 426

by V.J. Birstein, W.E. Bemis & J.R.Waldman^427 -^435

Species and subject index,byAliceG.Klingener 437 - 444

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Leo SemenovichBerg

Logo design by WilliamE.Bemisinspired by theholarctic distribution of sturgeons and paddlefishes

Numaeis Anishnabe for sturgeon, a painting by the Chippewas ofNawash artist Adrian Nadjiwon ofCape Croker,
Lake Huron: “In thepaintingIwanted todepict the balance that one existedbetween myancestors and the sturgeon
(the sturgeon being symbolic of all thefishspecies that the OldPeople subsisted on)with thefishing line symbolising
aspiritual link andbalancing point between the man and the sturgeon”(1992).