Anti-Poaching
Patrol Official
Caption:
Fishing authorities haul out an illegal line of hooks used by poachers to snare
the sturgeon in the Volga River in Russia. Overfishing and poaching over the
last decade in rivers and in the Caspian Sea is driving the beluga sturgeon
toward extinction.
Photo by Christopher Pala
Courtesy of Caviar Emptor
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