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) in reserve on 18 September 1948 and berthed at Mare Island, California. Just under two years later, on 7 August 1950, "Sterlet" was ordered reactivated. She was recommissioned at Mare Island on 26 August 1950 with Lieutenant Commander George W. Kittredge in command. On 25 September, she headed for San Diego where she conducted a month of training. In December, she shifted to Long Beach, California, where she became one of the stars in the motion picture "Submarine Command" with William Holden and William Bendix. "Sterlet" resumed operations along the West Coast early in 1951 and that employment continued until