Green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 1

Official title: COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the green sturgeon in Canada

COSEWIC
assessment and update status report
on the
Green Sturgeon
Acipenser medirostris
in Canada

Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris)

Special concern
2004


COSEWIC
Committee on the status
of endangered wildlife
in Canada
COSEWIC logo

COSEPAC

Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada

 

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk.  This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC 2004. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the green sturgeon Acipenser medirostris in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 31 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)

Previous report:

Houston, J.J.P. 1987. COSEWIC Status Report on the green sturgeon Acipenser medirostris in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 15 pp.

Production note:

COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Trevor D. Davies for writing the update status report on the green sturgeon Acipenser medirostris, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Robert Campbell, the COSEWIC Freshwater Fish Species Specialist Subcommittee Co-chair.

For additional copies contact:

COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3

Tel.: (819) 997-4991 / (819) 953-3215
Fax: (819) 994-3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la situation de l'esturgeon vert (Acipenser medirostris) au Canada - Mise à jour..

Cover illustration:
Green sturgeon -- Line drawing by D.R. Harriott.  Source: Pacific Fishes of Canada, by J.L. Hart, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin 180; Ottawa, 1973; FS 94-180.

©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2004
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/412-2005E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-39543-3
HTML: CW69-14/412-2005E-HTML
0-662-39544-1

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