Sturgeons and CITES

Background

A brief history of sturgeons and CITES

Official documents relating to sturgeons

1. Resolution Conf. 12.7 (Rev. CoP13)

2. Decisions 13.44 - 13.47

3. Notifications

• 2005/053, 2004/066, 2004/027, 2004/004, 2004/003, 2003/066, 2003/056, 2002/069, 2002/068, 2002/054, 2002/048, 2002/019, 2002/008, 2002/007, 2001/087

4. Catch and export quotas

5. Review of significant trade (AC 16.7.2)

6. Register of licensed legal exporters, processing and repackaging plants for specimens of sturgeon and paddlefish species

7. Documents regarding sturgeon from the 45th Meeting of the Standing Committee

Regional conservation strategy and management regimes (as required by Resolution Conf. 12.7 (Rev. CoP13))

• Regional Program of the Caspian Littoral States on Joint Management, Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Caspian Sea Bioresources
• Regional Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Sturgeon Populations of the N-W Black Sea and Lower Danube
• Regional Strategy on Conservation Population of Acipenser schrencki and Huso dauricus and Sustainable Development in Heilongjiang (Armur) River
  

Other relevant information

• Identification of Acipenseriformes species in trade
• The 8th edition of CITES World is dedicated exclusively to sturgeons. Click here to see the PDF version of this newletter.