For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

After the beluga are born, it takes five years to determine their gender and around 10 years for the fish to produce eggs that are ready to be harvested for caviar. The tanks are continuously ...

In modern culinary times, caviar has become synonymous with sophisticated palates. Unsurprisingly, there's a proper way to ...

So what kind of fish produces caviar ... There is the ultra-luxe beluga caviar, which is sourced from the beluga sturgeon of the Caspian Sea and costs up to $300 per ounce. There's the relatively ...

In addition to several types of black caviar, the monastery was selling sturgeon, beluga, starry sturgeon (sevruga) and other fish. In the 17th century the Trinity Sergius Lavra annually bought 10 ...

snout-nosed fish found in the Caspian Sea that dates back to the Middle Jurassic period. The different varieties of sturgeon, and therefore caviar, include beluga, oscietra and sevruga.

The world record belongs to a beluga sturgeon that weighed ... but not to get caviar — just to produce more fish. It wasn't until recently that people started canning this stuff and selling ...

Beluga caviar is expensive because the fish it comes from, the Beluga sturgeon, is extremely endangered species so its eggs are limited in supply, making it one of the world's most expensive foods.

The most expensive caviar produced here, Beluga, cost $5,700 per kilogram ... so we have our breeding fish. We choose them depending on the year and the type of sturgeons we want to get.

The Beluga species, for instance, can take more than 20 years. In the future, cheaper “cultured caviar” may be widespread ... that they are eating cheap fish eggs?

Consequently, environmentally-minded chefs and consumers have been exploring other types of fish roe as an alternative. ‘Avruga’ is a caviar substitute made from herring roe; lumpfish roe and ...