Over the years, the endangered sturgeon has become a protected species. In 2008, its fishing in the Caspian Sea was banned. Caviar producers then turned to breeding sturgeon in the wild on fish farms, thus preserving the natural wild resource.
The sturgeon’s reproductive cycle and development are very long. Puberty is late: it occurs after the age of 12 for most species in the wild…
Read more
The Caspian and Black Seas have always been home to the largest numbers of sturgeon. Until the end of the 1980s, the Soviet and Iranian governments shared the exploitation of Caspian sturgeon, while managing the dwindling numbers…
Read more
Over the past 15 years, production of wild caviar and farmed caviar has been completely reversed….
Read more
Sturgeon farming was developed in the 1930s to repopulate the Caspian Sea. The Iranians were already practicing artificial fertilization to obtain fry (baby sturgeon) and then release them back into the sea…
Read more
Aquaculture has taken over, and sturgeon farms have sprung up all over the world. These require investment, technical skills and patience! In fact, it takes 7 to 14 years for a female to reach sexual maturity and bear eggs. And extracting the precious egg pouch (the roe) costs them their lives…
Read more
Today, the three biggest caviar-producing countries are China (nearly 40 tons), Italy (30 tons) and France (25 tons). Next come the USA, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland and Israel, which produce between 5 and 20 tons of caviar a year…
Read more
To preserve the sturgeon, the Kaviari team turned to breeding very early on. Thanks to our expertise in wild caviar, we work hand in hand with breeders to produce caviar…
Read more
Chinese farmed caviar is a continuation of the country’s ancestral aquaculture know-how. Did you know that carp farming was practiced in China as far back as five centuries BC?
Read more
Endangered, a victim of uncontrolled fishing and pollution in its natural environment, the sturgeon has been a protected species since 1998….
Read more