Evans farms is a magical place we were lucky enough to tour, thanks to our friends Paul Holt and Joan Carter. Joan's sister and her husband Gene and Marilyn Evans owned the Evans farm which is quite the operation.
The whole farm is about 2000 acres. It has deer, turkey, bear, alligators and allot of other wild life plus bulls and cows. But the most interesting part of the farm is the aqua farm part where they raise Sturgeon and Tilipia.
Beginning in 2003 the Evans Farms bought 13 shipments of live sturgeons into the United States to start the first and only sturgeon farm in the United States. There were beluga, asetra and sevruga.
Research scientist in various countries wanted to preserve the sturgeon gene bank and to have genetic samples of these ancient species on hand.
The Evans farms has over 1000 sevruga, 30 of which are sexually mature. They have 10 Russian and 70 Adult beluga sturgeon. They are now harvesting sturgeons from sturgeon eggs preserving the species. We were lucky enough to see this first harvesting. This was most impressive seeing the eggs becoming live sturgeons a scientist first in the United States.
It was truly a magical day and very interesting seeing what most will never see a truly scientic first.
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