You don’t have to see a sturgeon in person to get a sense of just how monstrous and oddly majestic these ancient fish can be. But that’s exactly where Angela Köhler found herself a few years back–face ...
Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say that won’t save the species from going extinct in the wild by 2050 Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an ...
As the sun rises over the Sacramento Valley, the ranch hands at Tsar Nicoulai prepare for an early morning roundup. Unlike traditional livestock ranches, this farm specializes in sturgeon, producing ...
Suddenly, caviar seemed to be everywhere. Maybe it’s TikTok. More realistically, though, caviar’s ever-growing popularity is due to prices plummeting in recent years (thanks to sturgeon farming in ...
“Welcome to the caviar class you guys didn’t know you needed!” says Danielle Zaslavsky, smiling at the camera. Her family owns Marky’s, an American caviar company; she shows off its products on TikTok ...
What was supposed to be a period of popularity for caviar in the U.S. is now a moment of restraint as American tariffs on Chinese goods raise prices for the fish eggs preferred by chefs and their ...
Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga sturgeon swimming in front of him. Once he sneaked close enough, ...