Almost 80 percent of caviar was exported in 1725. All export revenues were used to finance the Russian Navy. In Soviet Russia, on May 3, 1926, a female beluga weighing more than 1 ton was caught ...

and Royal Belgian Caviar in Belgium, are among the most reliable sources for quality osetra. The Russian beluga sturgeon is the world’s largest freshwater fish — the biggest on record was a ...

Narrator: Mark Zaslavsky is a Russian immigrant who imported ... But there's more to this farm than just making caviar. According to Zaslavsky, he aims to use his beluga stock to help repopulate ...

“Beluga” comes from the Russian word “belaya,” which means ... These eggs are used to make caviar, which is considered a culinary delicacy. Beluga sturgeon caviar is highly sought after.

The most expensive caviar produced here, Beluga, cost $5,700 per kilogram. We visited Ars Italica's farm, where there are four species: Russian sturgeons, starred sturgeons, Adriatic sturgeons ...

See all stories. Is caviar worth it? It can’t be. At Simon Johnson, 30 grams of beluga caviar costs $209. A 100-gram tin of the stuff is priced at $730. Nothing that disappears so fast could be ...

It was a favourite foodstuff of Russian tsars. By the 19th century caviar was served in fine-dining ... a female sturgeon to reach maturity. The Beluga species, for instance, can take more than ...

Run by Mark Zaslavsky, a Russian immigrant who imported beluga caviar before the 2005 ban, this caviar farm is permitted to keep producing beluga caviar because the sturgeon were also imported ...