Champagne, caviar, a nice girl.” In the grading room, one of the workers offers me a taste of ossetra caviar from the critically endangered Russian sturgeon. It’s true; it tastes like ...

The threat of extinction In the beginning of the 20th century, Russian fishermen caught up to 40,000 tons of sturgeon annually in the Caspian Sea and the Volga, which, according to some ...

Although the beluga sturgeon shares its name with the more famous beluga whale, the two species are unrelated. “Beluga” comes from the Russian word “belaya,” which means white. So ...

NAKATSUGAWA, Gifu Prefecture--A construction company here that farms sturgeon as a side business ... Zipang” (almas means “diamond” in Russian) and plans to export it. Caviar, foie gras ...