“These were the kaluga, Huso dauricus; the Japanese (Sakhalin) sturgeon, Acipenser mikadoi (historically, this species has been considered conspecific with the American green sturgeon, A. medirostris)..”

*I wont bother with the link – it just exists*

yours (mucho depresso)

remora

*I’ll research this more.*

yours perplexed

remora

“Kayano has especially painful memories of how Japan’s Hokkaido policies disrupted the traditional Ainu way of life. “Salmon were the main source of food for us,” Kayano explains. “We say shi-e-pe. Shi means true or real. E means eat. And pe means thing. So you might say salmon is our ‘real food.’

“Then shamu came and suddenly Ainu were forbidden to take salmon. Only Japanese were allowed to harvest salmon, even though we’d been doing it for centuries.”

http://www.charlest.whipple.net/kayano.html

and as a remora I’ve seen quite a few fish in my time but that shi-e-pe in the photo has to be the largest I can recall…(hmmm..i wonder if they have remora’s as well?)

rem.

(The world is full of loads of fascinating information.)

I think.