sturgeon family

The Kaluga is one of the biggest of the sturgeon family.

The Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is a member of the sturgeon family.

The green sturgeon is the most widely distributed member of the sturgeon family Acipenseridae, and is also the most marine-oriented of the sturgeon species.

USS Hackleback (SS-295), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named after the hackleback, a freshwater fish of the sturgeon family.

A full-grown beluga, the largest member of the sturgeon family, can weigh a ton and carry more than two million eggs, although its relatives, the sevruga and osetra, are more common and not nearly as big.

The Kemner case, involving 22 Sturgeon families, is but one of many lawsuits to stem from the spill of chemicals made at Monsanto plant in Sauget, a few miles from the Belleville courthouse.