Manufacturers are trying to make the caviar industry more sustainable, by improving the method of obtaining delicacy, so far a guilty pleasure. They have started “milking” the sturgeons, in order to stimulate them to produce eggs. Until now, caviar trade has triggered a significant reduction of the sturg... |
28 November 2011
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The largest fish you will find in a river is beluga, a sturgeon living in the Danube and Volga rivers. Today, overfishing and poaching made it impossible to catch such huge beasts up to 8.6 m (28 ft) long and weighing as much as 2,700 kg (5,940 lbs), but individuals up to 5.5 m (18 ft) long and weighing hundreds of k... |
23 January 2008
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When a fish is known for its eggs rather than for the way it looks, this is a bad sign. There are 23 species of sturgeon fishes, assigned to 4 genera, all living in Northern Hemisphere, but if the name sturgeon sounds strange for many, caviar is linked by anybody to opulence. And this has been so since the ancient Ph... |
5 September 2007
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When this fish appeared, dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. "Panda under the water" is the nickname of the Chinese sturgeon, a giant fish considered a "living fossil." Now they face the faith of the dinosaurs: extinction. But not from a meteorite, but from humans. These sturgeons can grow up to 4 m (13 ft) in length a... |
16 August 2007
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Danube is like a vertebral column of the European continent and a navigable path connecting 9 countries over 2,850 km (1,800 mi), while gathering its affluents from an area of 817,000 square km. It is the 26th river in the world, and the second in Europe after Volga. It originates in the Black Forest Mountains in Ge... |
1 August 2007
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