It can withstand significant salinity levels.

The Amur whitefish is usually eaten salted or smoked.

Its distribution includes the middle reaches of the Amur, downstream of Blagoveshchensk, all along the lower reaches and including its estuary.

It lives as well in the Kukhtuy river, the Tatar Strait and the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk.

It also has been recorded in Sakhalin, in the lagoons of the northwestern and northeastern coasts, as well as in the Ainskoe and Sladkoe coastal lakes.