Caviar Alternatives

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Caviar connoisseurs are heralding the growing selection of American caviars. Innovative varieties produced from sturgeon, paddlefish, wild Alaska salmon and whitefish offer excellent taste and are environmentally sustainable.

Photo credit: Bill Reese, courtesy of Caviar Emptor.

Midsize Beluga - Astrakhan

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In the past decade, fishermen have rarely seen mid-size beluga sturgeon like the one pictured here.

Photo credit: Hans-Jurgen Burkard/Bilderberg, courtesy of Caviar Emptor.

Delivering Catch to the Police

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After a huge net is pulled across the river, an official fishermen brigade delivers the catch to a factory boat or the already waiting “mafia” of fish policemen.

Photo credit: Hans-Jurgen Burkard/Bilderberg, courtesy of Caviar Emptor.

Fishermen with Nets

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Where the nets were teeming with fish 10 years ago, fishermen now pull out only a few small sturgeons and other fish.

Photo credit: Hans-Jurgen Burkard/Bilderberg, courtesy of Caviar Emptor.

Anti-Poaching Patrols on the Volga River in Russia

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Fishing authorities haul out an illegal line of hooks used by poachers to snare the sturgeon in the Volga. Poaching over the last decade in rivers and in the Caspian Sea is driving the beluga sturgeon toward extinction.

Photo credit: Christopher Pala, courtesy of Caviar Emptor.