Policy Documents Policy Documents

Policy-related documents of relevance to the SturSNiP project:

European Commission Press Release "New rules to combat illegal caviar trade"; IP/06/611; Brussels, 15 May 2006.
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 865/2006 of 4 May 2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein.
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Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of 9 December 1996 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein.
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Proceedings of the International Sturgeon Enforcement Workshop to Combat Illegal Trade in Caviar (27-29 June 2006; Brussels, Belgium).
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Literature of Interest Literature of Interest

Hale M.C., McCormick C.R., Jackson J.R., DeWoody J.A. (2009) Next-generation pyrosequencing of gonad transcriptomes in the polyploid lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens): the relative merits of normalization and rarefaction in gene discovery. BMC Genomics 2009, 10:203
Nathan A., Baird N.A., Etter P.D., Atwood T.S., Currey M.C., Shiver A.L., Lewis Z.A., Selker E.U., Cresko W.A., Johnson E.A. (2009) Rapid SNP Discovery and Genetic Mapping Using Sequenced RAD Markers, PLoS One, 3 (10): e3376
Pikitch E.K., Doukakis P., Lauck L., Chakrabarty P., Erickson D.L. (2005) Status, trends and management of sturgeon and paddlefish fisheries. Fish and Fisheries, 6: 233-265
Raymakers C. and Hoover C. (2002) Acipenseriformes: CITES implementation from Range States to consumer countries. J. Appl. Ichthyology 18: 629–638
Rehbein H., Molkentin J., Schubring R., Lieckfeldt D., Ludwig A. (2008) Development of advanced analytical tools to determine the origin of caviar. J. Appl. Ichthyology 24 (Suppl. 1): 65–70
Ludwig A. (2008) Identification of acipenseriformes species in trade. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 24 (SUPPL. 1), pp. 2-19