Life Cycle
Sturgeon are anadromous meaning they spawn in fresh water and migrate to salt water to mature.
The Chinese variety can be considered a large fresh water fish, although it spend part of its life-cycle in seawater, like the salmon.
The Chinese Sturgeon has a habit of upstream migration: they dwell along the coasts of China's eastern areas and migrate back up rivers for propagation upon reaching sexual maturity. It has the longest migration of any sturgeon in the world and once migrated more than 3,200 km (2,000 mi) up the Yangtze. The sturgeon's reproductive capacity is poor: it may breed three or four times during its life-cycle, and a female sturgeon can carry in excess of a million eggs in one pregnancy, which are released for external fertilisation when mature. The survival rate to hatching is however estimated to be less than 1 percent.
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