Rare Sturgeon dies at Ocean Park

Are Ocean Park impacted by high food prices, and feeding their exhibits to the barracuda? We shouldn’t joke about it, but one of five very rare Chinese Sturgeon died on Monday 23 June. It was found on Saturday with injuries consistent with those caused by barracuda. Five of these fish were presented to Ocean Park by China’s National Aquatic Wildlife Conservation Association last month, and had only been released into the Atoll Reef aquarium four days earlier. The remaining four sturgeon have been temporarily removed while Ocean Park staff make plans to relocate the 8 barracuda to a separate facility. There is a story in Tuesday’s SCMP (24 June), and the photo on the right was taken from SCMP’s website.