![]() ![]() This overfishing critically endangered the wild sturgeons, so the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species put a series of bans and trade embargoes in place and made it illegal to sell or harvest wild caviar in the United States. The fisherman would capture the fish, cut out the “roe sacks” that held the eggs, and throw the fish back in to die. ![]() Until just a few decades ago, caviar was harvested from the wild sturgeon swimming in the Caspian and Black seas. “In addition, there are other caviar producing sturgeons, including the Pacific sturgeon and Siberian sturgeon.” If that’s not enough, there’s also a myriad of hybrids being produced-beluga X Siberian, Chinese hybrid (dauricus X schrenki) and osetra X beluga, to name but a few. “Beluga was always considered the best because of its rarity and size, followed by osetra and sevruga,” Panchernikov says. According to Ilya Panchernikov the managing director of Caviar Russe-a high-end Madison Avenue restaurant which specializes in caviar-the three species of sturgeon which made caviar famous were beluga, osetra and sevruga. There are many different species of sturgeon which produce their own unique type of caviar. ![]()
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