Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854 . Green Sturgeon . To 270 cm ( 108 in ) TL ( Moyle 2002 ). Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan ( Antonenko et al. 2003 ) to Tohoku, Japan (Hosoya in Nakabo 2002 ) to Pacific coast of Kamchatka, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just south of Bahía de San Quintin, northern Baja California ( Rosales-Casián and Almeda-Jáuregui 2009 ). Bering Sea records have been rare and not well documented (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). On 4 June 2005 , a Green Sturgeon was caught in Kuskokwim Bay off Kwigillingok ( 59°51’N , 162°08’W ) ( Love et al. 2005 ). In addition, a few Green Sturgeon have been captured in the lower Yukon River which enters the Bering Sea near Norton Sound (Randy Brown, pers. comm. to M.L.). Depth: to 167 m ( 548 ft ) at sea (NWFSC-FRAM). Anadromous.