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CAVIAR
Caviar Extraction Methods:
Classic
In this method, the roe, or caviar, is extracted from
slaughtered fish, making it the most expensive caviar out
there. Once extracted, the roe sack is sifted through a special
sieve where the eggs are separated from its membrane and
then washed, ready to be sent to the salting. The remaining
fish, freed from its roe sack, is chopped into steaks and sent
off for sale. This classic caviar is more expensive than the
caviar extracted through the no-kill method and produces
1/10 of all legal caviar on the market.
Sturgeon species:
Beluga enters the mature age by15-20 years
old and lives in the wild up to 100 years
No-Kill
This method is viewed as more humane. The roe, or caviar,is
carefully extracted from broodstock, mature females
specifically set aside for breeding. Tiny incisions made into
the abdomen of the fish allow the roe to flow into acontainer,
after which the fish is then sent back into the pond. After two
or three years, the female can again produce offspring. This
no-kill method of producing caviar is cheaper than the classic
method, as the fish is used more than once.
Now sturgeon are being chipped , which means
the inserted chip can reveal the age and origin of the fish, as
well as how many times it produced caviar already.
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Sevruga lives to 40 years
Sturgeons give their first batch of caviar on
the farm at 7-8 years old or 11-13 in the wild). Each
female sturgeon can provide caviar 5-7 times in a
lifetime, on average once every 2years.