The Washington Post, November 26th, 2002
Say bye-bye to beluga caviar. With the holiday season upon us, the buffet tables of the best hosts and hostesses may be seeing one of the last seasons of the beluga sturgeon, whose eggs are the delicacy better known as caviar. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed to add the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso), which now numbers in the thousands, to its list of endangered animals. The issue of taking caviar off the table will be discussed at a public hearing on Dec. 5 in Arlington, when industry aficionados such as Tsar Nicoulai Caviar Inc., an importer and a producer;...
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