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Buy caviar from
our partner Markys Caviar. Direct contacts with
the Russian caviar manufacturers allows to select
the really quality caviar. Any time you can choose
online freshest Beluga 000 caviar or Golden Osetra
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Did you
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Caviar
- the most luxurious health food! Just 1 tablespoon
of caviar has 1 g of hard-to-get omega-3 fats
(more than what's in half a can of white tuna).
It has only 40 calories, 2.8 g of total fat and
94 mg of cholesterol. Experts think omega-3s help
your heart muscle beat regularly and thus prevent
fatal heart attacks. Early research hints omega-3s
may help prevent depression too.
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News & articles
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Anti-poaching
squads tackle caviar crisis
BBC News, Wednesday,
25 June, 2003
The authorities in the Russian Republic of Dagestan
have resorted to tough measures to try to curb the
poaching of sturgeon, an endangered species important
to the economy for the production of caviar. more>> |
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Caviar
- the most luxurious health food! Just
1 tablespoon of caviar has 1 g of hard-to-get
omega-3 fats (more than what's in half
a can of white tuna). It has only 40 calories,
2.8 g of total fat and 94 mg of cholesterol.
Experts think omega-3s help your heart
muscle beat regularly and thus prevent
fatal heart attacks. Early research hints
omega-3s may help prevent depression too.
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Sturgeon are "living fossils"
that evolved 250 million years ago and
survived the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
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Most
sturgeon are anadromous fish, hatching
in fresh water, maturing in brackish or
salt water, and returning to their natal
freshwater streams to spawn. They living
in brackish or salt water between spawnings.
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Sturgeon
have been harvested for their eggs, called
"roe" and processed as "caviar,"
for centuries.
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In
the 19th Century, the United States led
the world in caviar production, including
60,000 pounds each year from Lake Michigan.
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During
the peak of the U.S. sturgeon fishery
(1885-1895), an estimated 25 million pounds
of sturgeon were harvested annually from
U.S. waters.
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By
1910, sturgeon in the United States were
nearly extinct due to over-fishing, poaching,
and habitat degradation. U.S. production
ended and caviar production shifted to
the Caspian Sea.
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Today,
Caspian Sea sturgeons account for more
than 90 percent of the world's caviar.
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With
an area of 238,000 square miles and maximum
depth of 3,215 feet, the Caspian Sea is
the largest inland body of water in the
world. It is bordered by (clockwise from
the north) Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran,
Azerbaijan, and Russia.
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The
most commercially desirable caviars --
beluga, osetra, and sevruga -- are increasingly
rare as the beluga, Russian, and stellate
sturgeons become threatened with extinction
due primarily to the substantial and growing
illegal trade.
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The
number of adult sturgeons living in the
Caspian Sea is estimated to have declined
by 70 percent from 142 million adults
in 1978 to 43.5 million in 1994.
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International
law enforcement agencies report that illegal
wildlife trade is second only to the illegal
drug trade in volume and profit, the total
trade in caviar is estimated at around
$125 million, and more than 50 percent
of the trade is illegal.
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The
United States accounts for about 30 percent
of the world caviar market. According
to the National Marine Fisheries Service,
the U.S. imported 61 tons of caviar in
1994, 54 tons in 1995, 81 tons in 1996.
Russia supplies the U.S. with 70 percent
of all its caviar imports.
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According
to U.S. Customs declarations, recent U.S.
caviar imports were valued at $60 million,
sold at an average price of $50 an ounce.
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In
the United States, caviar is sold commercially
at prices ranging from $25 an ounce for
sturgeon of Tennessee waterways to $80
an ounce for Russian beluga.
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However,
caviar in the illegal trade may be repacked
and falsely labeled, thus containing an
inferior product for which the consumer
still pays top dollar.
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The
threat to sturgeon is exacerbated by poachers'
methods for harvesting roe. While fishing
for egg-carrying females, poachers simply
kill all the fish they catch, including
males and juveniles. There is no easy,
inexpensive way to extract the eggs without
killing the fish.
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Because
they are long-lived (up to 150 years),
sturgeon reach sexual maturity late--between
6 and 25 years, depending on species and
gender. Therefore, indiscriminate killing
is a serious threat to the species' survival.
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Of
the nine species of sturgeon native to
the U.S., four are listed as endangered
or threatened under the Endangered Species
Act:
Shortnosed sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
(E)
Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
(E)
White sturgeon (A. transmontanus), Kootenai
River population (E)
Gulf sturgeon (A. oxyrhynchus desotoi)
(T)
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Atlantic sturgeon may live up to 60 years,
weigh up to 800 pounds, and reach lengths
of up to 15 feet. A 200-300-pound female
Atlantic sturgeon may carry up to 30 or
40 pounds of eggs.
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In
addition to caviar, sturgeon provide meat;
leather for bookbinding and handicrafts;
and isinglass (a gelatin made from the
swim bladder) used in beer clarification,
waterproofing materials, jellies, paint
toners, and glues.
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