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Table 1Continued.

A.oxyrinchus Atlantic sturgeon AtlanticOcean (Canada and USA Lr (nt)

A. oxyrinchus desotoi^5 Gulf sturgeon Gulf ofMexicoand northern coast T Williams et al. VU

east coast)
of South America 1989 USFWS
1990bManci 1993
A. o. oxyrinchus Atlantic sturgeon River estuaries and ocean SC (USA) Williams et al VU (Canada LR Appendix
along east coast of North America 1989 & USA) (nt) II
from the St. Johns River (Florida)
to Hamilton Inlet (Labrador)
rivers entering into them

A. persicus Persian sturgeon Caspian and Black seas and EN Lelek 1987 EN

CaspianSeapopulation VU
Black Sea population R Pavloy et al. 1994 EN
A. ruthenus Sterlet Drainages of main rivers EN Lelek1987 VU
entering the Caspian and Black
seas (Volga, Danube)
Volga River population
Danube River population VU
Danube River population, VU Guti 1995
Hungary
DanubeRiverpopulation, VU Banarescu∨∨ I995
Romania
Dnepr River population EN Gringevsky 1994

LR (1c)

Oh. Irtysh, Yenisey rivers (Siberia) VU

A. schrenckii Amur River Amur-River system (Siberia) T Manci 1993 VU (China EN

sturgeon & Russia)

EN Kryktin &

Svirskii 1997

A. sinensis Chinese sturgeon YangtzeRiversystem (China) EN, H Wei et al. 1997 EN

(category) I

of state

protection)^4

A. stellatus Stellate sturgeon CaspianAzovBlack and Aegean EN

CaspianSeapopulalion V U

or sevruga seas and rivers entering into them

H Khodorevsskaya et

al. 1997

Black Sea population EN

Dnepr River population (Black EN Gringevsky 1994

Sea)

Danube River population, EN Guti 1995

Hungary

DanubeRiverpopulation, EN Banarescu∨∨ 1995

Romania

Sea of Azov VU , H VoIovik et al. EN

I993

A sturio Atlantic (Baltic) Baltic,Eastern North Atlantic, E N^6 USSR Red Data EN CR AppendixI

sturgeon Mediterranean and Black Sca Book 1984 Lelek

1987. Holcik∨ et al.
      1989
      A.transmontanus White sturgeon River and Pacific coast of V (Canada) Campbell 1991 LR (nt)
      North America from the Gulf of
      Alaska to Baja California
      V (California. Moyle 1994
      USA)
      Kootenai River and Kootenai EN USFWS 19947 EN
      Lakein Idaho, Montana and
      British Columbia downstream of
      Libby Dam in Montana