great sturgeon

"The Ramudoi are River People and hunt the great sturgeon--mat's a huge fish.

The Caspian is famous for its peculiar animal fauna, including one of the few non-marine seals (the Caspian seal) and the great sturgeons, the source of caviar.

Perestroika, Six Years Later Incredibly, there is no fish to be bought in the stores of a vibrant riverfront city that is in the heart of the nation's great sturgeon and caviar fields.

No river man could call himself a man until he had harpooned one of the great sturgeon, and no Shamudoi of the land, until he had hunted his own chamois in the mountains.

In the sea lives more than 70 species of various fishes among them great sturgeon, Russian sturgeon, starred sturgeon, Azov turbot, haarder, mullets, kilka, anchovy, sea roach, shemaya, various species of gobies.

These two residents of Russia's caviar-producing region represent the intensifying clash of interests among Russians and their newly independent neighbors: along the shores of the Caspian, the world's largest inland sea, competition for resources threatens extinction of the last great sturgeon population on earth.