IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2007) Acipenser brevirostrum

Shortnose sturgeon is a relatively small species, sympatric in U.S. and Canadian Atlantic Coast rivers and estuaries with the larger Atlantic sturgeon (A. o. oxyrhinchus). Historically the two species were harvested commercially for flesh and caviar, but no species differentiation was recorded in the landings data.

Publisher - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

Subjects - Fish, Shortnose Sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum

---

Citation: Friedland KD, Kynard B. 2004. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2007) Acipenser brevirostrum. Cambridge (England): International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/222/0