Are sturgeons protected animals? Is sturgeon a national protected animal?

1. ACIPENSER sinensis is a national first-class protected animal in China. The Chinese sturgeon, known as the "giant panda in the water", is a living fossil, mainly distributed below Jinsha River, the main stream of the Yangtze River in China, and occasionally appears in other water systems such as Ganjiang River, Xiangjiang River, Minjiang River, Qiantang River and Pearl River.

2. Acipenser sinensis is the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish, with a longest life span of 40 years, and is known as the "king of the Yangtze River fish".

3. Acipenser sinensis is the descendant of ancient stickleback and the ancestor of fish. It is the oldest vertebrate on the earth, living in the same period as dinosaurs, with a history of1.400 million years.

4. Acipenser sinensis is a kind of bottom fish, migratory or semi-migratory, living in rivers and offshore waters, gathering in estuaries from May to June in spring and summer, and going upstream in autumn.