Demand for caviar may mean trouble for Missouri sturgeon

Monday, December 9, 2002

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The world's hunger for caviar is threatening the existence of the shovelnose and pallid sturgeons that roam the bottom of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

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