‘Tis the season for — among many other traditions, customs and family rituals — eating caviar. For the uninitiated, caviar is not just “fish eggs”: it’s a salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae, ...

The world of caviar is one of luxury, an intricate harvesting process and high-priced tins of the delicacy. The United States produced 18 metric tons, or nearly 40,000 pounds, of caviar in 2018.

“You need a female fish,” says Josh Lang, site manager at Sterling Caviar’s white-sturgeon farm in Elverta, Calif. It’s nearly impossible to ascertain a sturgeon’s sex from the outside; Lang and his ...

For the glory of acquiring highly prized sturgeon eggs, countless clashes and crimes have transpired across the globe, from coffin-crammed capers to revisionist religion. Salt-cured sturgeon roe — ...

KIBBUTZ DAN, Israel (Reuters) - When Yigal Ben Tzvi began working on the fish farms of his kibbutz two decades ago, he never imagined that one day each fish would be worth thousands of dollars. During ...

When Cheol Hong Park of Dinoville Aquafarm learned that the entire sturgeon species was listed as endangered or threatened in 1998 while studying their preservation, he came up with the idea to ...

You don’t have to see a sturgeon in person to get a sense of just how monstrous and oddly majestic these ancient fish can be. But that’s exactly where Angela Köhler found herself a few years back–face ...

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A Swiss entrepreneur plans to harvest sturgeon caviar in the middle of the Swiss Alps. After the Swiss built the world's longest land tunnel, warm water seeping through the rocks had to be collected ...

The world of caviar is one of luxury, an intricate harvesting process and high-priced tins of the delicacy. The United States produced 18 metric tons, or nearly 40,000 pounds, of caviar in 2018.