Non-lethal egg removal
Caption:
A beluga sturgeon from Kazakhstan’s Ural River undergoes a new procedure mastered
by the Erkin Kala hatchery that uses massage to extract the eggs, which
were later artificially fertilized to produce thousands of fingerlings
(or baby sturgeon). Â This procedure allowed the fish to live, and it was
later tagged by Caviar Emptor scientists and returned to the Caspian Sea.
Photo by Shannon Crownover,
SeaWeb
Courtesy of Caviar Emptor
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