Gas and gun money is hard enough here to find for many when others are paying $270 per ounce in gourmet shops world-wide for wild fish eggs! Farm-raised caviar goes for about 2/3rds that.
There are so many ways to make money. 10 years years into California farm raised caviar it is now among the best. Found it interesting they harvest more eggs from the same female fish later. CA now produces an estimated 85% of all the U.S. white sturgeon caviar. Sturgeon — Acipenseridae — have outlived whatever killed the dinosaurs. They've survived everything in the past 250 million years, only now nearly are falling prey to man's desire for their clusters of glistening roe. Sturgeon are getting closer to being extinct in some areas in the wild:
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Found it interesting they harvest more eggs from the same farm raised fish later - they have probably just been killing them for their eggs for years. Sturgeon is also good eating - great smoked. The Oregon season requires a license and tag. There is a season and only those between 3 and 6 feet can be kept.
The Great California Caviar Rush
Wonder if this is another example of man messing with nature. The chef in the article to tell the difference so said farm raised is not a substitute for wild, instead a different new ingredient. Could this turn out similar to the farmed salmon thing is hard to say. The Columbia River Sturgeon live to be over 100 years and get over 12 feet long. Look like sea serpent dinosaurs - a big sucker mouth no teeth. Often live in deep water. The old pictures of the monsters taken before regulation are amazing like:
China's Yangtze Dams will reduce the habitat for the Sturgeon and their' panda of the sea', numbers down to under 1000. Not sure if the same fish or not. These fish are getting more and more rare and some say are an indicator of water health. The Chinese paddle fish even bigger not seen since 2003:
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Farm raising Sturgeon may be the only way to keep some kinds alive. The wild river environments where Sturgeon used to live are not as common as they used to be. We will see if farm raised caviar grows in popularity.
There are so many ways to make money. 10 years years into California farm raised caviar it is now among the best. Found it interesting they harvest more eggs from the same female fish later. CA now produces an estimated 85% of all the U.S. white sturgeon caviar. Sturgeon — Acipenseridae — have outlived whatever killed the dinosaurs. They've survived everything in the past 250 million years, only now nearly are falling prey to man's desire for their clusters of glistening roe. Sturgeon are getting closer to being extinct in some areas in the wild:
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Found it interesting they harvest more eggs from the same farm raised fish later - they have probably just been killing them for their eggs for years. Sturgeon is also good eating - great smoked. The Oregon season requires a license and tag. There is a season and only those between 3 and 6 feet can be kept.
The Great California Caviar Rush
Wonder if this is another example of man messing with nature. The chef in the article to tell the difference so said farm raised is not a substitute for wild, instead a different new ingredient. Could this turn out similar to the farmed salmon thing is hard to say. The Columbia River Sturgeon live to be over 100 years and get over 12 feet long. Look like sea serpent dinosaurs - a big sucker mouth no teeth. Often live in deep water. The old pictures of the monsters taken before regulation are amazing like:
China's Yangtze Dams will reduce the habitat for the Sturgeon and their' panda of the sea', numbers down to under 1000. Not sure if the same fish or not. These fish are getting more and more rare and some say are an indicator of water health. The Chinese paddle fish even bigger not seen since 2003:
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Farm raising Sturgeon may be the only way to keep some kinds alive. The wild river environments where Sturgeon used to live are not as common as they used to be. We will see if farm raised caviar grows in popularity.
