Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . lins, onedoreal and one ventral, both near the tail. Thelin-rays are jointed ami flexible. Spiracles arepresent behind the eyes. The air-bladder com-municates with the gullet. There are many speciesof sturgeon, all confined to the northern hemi-sphere. They live in the sea and great lakes, tlie great rivers. All are of considerablesize, and .supiily valuable commodities, for whichthey are regularly captured on a large scale. Thesecommodities are their flesh, which is palatable andwholesome, their roe (Caviare, ), an
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . lins, onedoreal and one ventral, both near the tail. Thelin-rays are jointed ami flexible. Spiracles arepresent behind the eyes. The air-bladder com-municates with the gullet. There are many speciesof sturgeon, all confined to the northern hemi-sphere. They live in the sea and great lakes, tlie great rivers. All are of considerablesize, and .supiily valuable commodities, for whichthey are regularly captured on a large scale. Thesecommodities are their flesh, which is palatable andwholesome, their roe (Caviare, ), and their air-bladders, from which isinglass is made. The eggsare small and numerous, like those of bony fishes ;there is no copulatiim, the ova being laid and fertil-ised on the bottom of the up|ier ]iarts of rivers, likethose of the .salmcm. The food of sturgeons consistsof worms, Crustacea, and molluscs, wliich they seekby routing in the sea-bottom with their snouts. The Common Sturgeon (A. stiirio) is the onlyspecies which occuis in British seas and Star jitHstr aluno}. The specific character distinguishing the speciesare minute, consisting in the number of the bonyscales, position of the fins, length of the snout, & xtiirio is sometimes taken by trawlers at sea,more often in salmon stake nets, and in estuaries,especially in the Severn. It enters the rivets in theearly part of the year for the iiurpose of adult it is fr<Mn 6 to 10 feet long. It oecurein the Mediterranean, western and northern Europe,and on the /Vtlantie coiust of .America, but is the Black Sea and Danube, and from theCaspian Sea. In Kngland, ivs early as reign, the sturgeon was a royal fish, belong-ing to the king wlien captured. The Sterlet () is a much snuiller species, which is com-mon in the Black and Caspian Seius, ami luscendsthe Danube a:s far as Vienna. It is uuc of the 774 STURLASON STUTTGART principal objects of the sturgeon-fishery o
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