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U.N. clears way for caviar
harvest after Caspian countries accept curbs
AP, GENEVA, Wed
Mar 6, 2002
Countries on the Caspian Sea may resume the
multimillion-dollar harvest of caviar because
of progress they have made in saving the endangered
sturgeon, source of the gourmet fish eggs,
a U.N. body said Wednesday. more>>
Legal action filed for
protection of beluga sturgeon
USA TODAY, April 29, 2002
An environmental watchdog group is
suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for
failing to list the beluga sturgeon as an
endangered species. Beluga sturgeons, primarily
from the Caspian Sea, are the source of highly
prized beluga caviar. Eighty percent of the
Caspian beluga caviar is imported by the USA.
In 2000, 33,000 pounds, selling for about
$100 an ounce, were imported. more>>
Wildlife rules could cut
off caviar
USA TODAY, December 2, 2002
"Sturgeon, thank God, do it," songwriter
Cole Porter wrote. "Have some caviar,
dear." It's good that Porter, who died
in 1964, didn't live to see this. Prompted
by environmentalists' concerns, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is proposing that beluga
sturgeon, the source of the world's best caviar,
be listed as an endangered species. That would
cut off about 20% of the legal caviar imports
to the United States, which consumes about
80% of the world's beluga caviar. more >>
Roe is me! Caviar dealer
off to prison
AP, February 1, 2002
Many of the nation's caviar lovers who rang
in the millennium feasting on fish roe may
have unwittingly supped on a U.S. protected
species: the American paddlefish.Stylish celebrants
at numerous New York hotels and restaurants
among other places thought they were devouring
Russian Sevruga caviar. Instead, they were
fed the more down-home paddlefish that inhabit
the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers and their
tributaries. more>>
Giant beluga farm that could
save the fish that lays the golden eggs
The Guardian , Monday December
2, 2002
In an effort to save the fish that lays the
golden eggs, businessmen are planning to build
a giant fish farm on the banks of the river
Ural in Kazakhstan, beginning for the first
time the commercial production of beluga sturgeon
for its caviar. more>>
Farmed sturgeon 'only hope
for caviar'
BBC News, Monday,
2December, 2002
A fish that can live for 150 years and grow
to six metres (19 feet) in length appears
doomed to extinction. The fish is the beluga,
one of the seven species of sturgeon living
in the Caspian Sea. more>>
Caviar smuggling:
Big price to pay for tiny eggs
STAMFORD, December 30,
2002
In the history of caviar smuggling, a white
ranch house on a dead-end street in the city's
Belltown neighborhood has a special place.
It was home to Gino International, a caviar
import-export company owned by Eugeniusz Koczuk.
To accommodate the roe from Caspian sturgeons,
the otherwise nondescript house had a walk-in
refrigerator and a restaurant-style freezer.
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