What does a sturgeon eat?

Answer 1

General Answer for Sturgeons - Small sturgeon eat very small organisms & larvae. As they mature they will eat almost anything such as: decaying matter/fish, mollusks, crustaceans, shrimp, crayfish, snails, clams, muscles, insects, worms, eggs of other fish mainly salmon, worms, some aquatic plants. Small fish such as herring, smelt, sunfish, bass, trout & shad, but also salmon. They like squid and are known to eat mice, rats, & frogs.

Mainly dead or alive stuff that is on the bottom but they will pursue live fish and may even feed on the carcass of another sturgeon.

Hatchery sturgeon are usually fed specially formulated sinking pellets, but also squid & trout.

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Answer 2

Sturgeon are cartilaginous fishes of Order Acipenseriformes, Family Acipenseridae. They are among the oldest fishes still in existence, whose form has changed very little since they first appeared about 200 million years ago.

Answer 3

General Answer for Sturgeons - Small sturgeon eat very small organisms & larvae. As they mature they will eat almost anything such as: decaying matter/fish, mollusks, crustaceans, shrimp, crayfish, snails, clams, muscles, insects, worms, eggs of other fish mainly salmon, worms, some aquatic plants. Small fish such as herring, smelt, sunfish, bass, trout & shad, but also salmon. They like squid and are known to eat mice, rats, & frogs.
Mainly dead or alive stuff that is on the bottom but they will pursue live fish and may even feed on the carcass of another sturgeon.

Answer 4

Small sturgeon eat very small organisms & larvae. As they mature they will eat almost anything such as: decaying matter/fish, mollusks, crustaceans, shrimp, crayfish, snails, clams, muscles, insects, worms, eggs of other fish mainly salmon, worms, some aquatic plants. Small fish such as herring, smelt, sunfish, bass, trout & shad, but also salmon. They like squid and are known to eat mice, rats, & frogs.
Mainly dead or alive stuff that is on the bottom but they will pursue live fish and may even feed on the carcass of another sturgeon.

Answer 5

Yes. Its very good and good for you, full of omega 3 like salmon. But all sturgeon are endangered so eat farmed. Very large and old sturgeon can contain high levels of Mercury or other contaminant poisoning depending where they live, and if the environment is polluted.

Answer 6

Sturgeons are primarily bottom-feeders and eat a diet mainly consisting of small fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and insect larvae. They use their vacuum-like mouths to suck up their prey from river or ocean bottoms.

Answer 7

We Do. The number one predator to sturgeon is humans. Sea Lions and Lampreys also. Bass are known to eat baby sturgeon and many fish eat their eggs like Sculpin.

Answer 8

They eat larvae, worms, crayfish, snails, and small fish.

Answer 9

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