Sterlet They may require special food such as sterlet sticks, as they are unable to digest the vegetable proteins usually found in commercial fish foods. In Russia, it is held in high esteem on account of its excellent flesh, contributing also to the best kinds of caviar and isinglass. Sterlet The sterlet ("Acipenser ruthenus") is a relatively small species of sturgeon from Eurasia native to large rivers that flow into the Black Sea, Azov Sea, and Caspian Sea, as well as rivers in Siberia as far east as Yenisei. Populations migrating between fresh and salt water (anadromous) have been extirpated. Due
USS Sterlet (SS-392) patrol was given over to lifeguard duty for the crews of carrier planes and B-29 Superfortresses attacking Japan. "Sterlet" rescued a New Zealander and a Briton, one was near the Kii Channel between Shikoku and Honshu. When Japanese capitulation brought an end to the patrol, "Sterlet" returned to Midway on 23 August. On 6 September, she sailed for the United States entering reaching San Diego Naval Base ten days later. "Sterlet" remained on the West Coast until the end of February 1946, at San Diego until 13 November and at San Francisco, California, thereafter. On 26 February 1946, she started