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Perhaps More Caviar Than the Caspian Sea

Bloomberg: On New Year’s Day, Consider the Sturgeon

When Peter the Great gave Louis XV a gift of caviar, the French king tried it, and then spat it out on the floor of Versailles. About 320 years later we seem to have gotten used to the taste. “The fancy cars, the women and the caviar, you know who we are,” sings Ludacris in “Pimpin’ All Over the World.” It’s not just that these fish eggs taste good: they taste like the high life.

Look beyond its aura of glamour and you’ll find that caviar is the product of an intricate and shifting global industry. With U.S. bans on caviar from the critically endangered Caspian and Black Sea sturgeon, traditionally the source of the most prized eggs, that business got a lot more complicated. Read more at Bloomberg.com

Endangered sturgeon producing high-quality caviar are bred in Florida

By Ann Marie O’Phelan
Central Florida’s Agri-Leader

Published: November 13, 2013
Located on 120 acres in the tiny town of Bascom, there are 100 tanks that hold an impressive sturgeon population of approximately 100,000.

The tanks are full of the critically-endangered Beluga, Sevruga, Sterlet and to a lesser extent Russian Osetra sturgeon. Sturgeon AquaFarms is actually the largest Beluga aqua farm in the world and has more Beluga sturgeon than the Caspian Sea

The Marky’s Group - Speciality Food Magazine

By Susan Segrest

Marky’s, a specialty food retailer, importer and distributor based in Miami Gardens, Fla., was founded in 1983 as a small food store by Mark Zaslavsky and Mark Gelman, immigrants from Ukraine. Today it has multiple retail outlets, a caviar aquafarm in North Florida, an Italian cheese production facility, a European e-commerce division in Germany, distribution facilities in Miami and Panama and a division focused exclusively on specialty food sales to cruise ship lines.

CNN – Beluga caviar, farmed in Florida

Florida-raised sturgeon on the menu at Miami market, North Miami bistro