The Death Of Caviar?
October, 2004
In April the U.S. and Wildlife Service put the beluga sturgeon, source of the most coveted fish eggs, on the threatened-species list. The month before, Moscow officials confiscated more than three tons of black-market caviar from store shelves. Poachers had marketed the caviar under well-known brand names with misspellings on the labels. That same week, the president of a Polish caviar company was sentenced in Miami to 30 months for smuggling roe into the U.S. in suitcases. By the time he makes...
