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Scientists launch project to save Caspian Beluga Sturgeon
The Caspian Sea - Three men struggle to lift a squirming, nearly 2-meter (6.5 foot) gray fish with a pointy nose and distinctive jagged spine and spill it into the green waters of the Caspian Sea.
Off it swims with two others, all trailing satellite receivers wired to their dorsal fins _ launching a pilot study expected to yield valuable information about a species of sturgeon hearty enough to have survived from prehistoric times but now on the brink of extinction due to the insatiable appetite of the wealthy for caviar.