> What's the big deal about caviar anyway? It's like salty, fishy, jello?
It
> definitely is not worth pushing a species into extinction for.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Haas" <bhaas_at_netexpress.net>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Beluga Sturgeon
>
>
> > I also heard the report. USFWS is considering putting a ban on the
> > importation and sale of Beluga caviar in the U.S. in order to help out
the
> > sturgeon. The flip side of this is that an enormous amount of Beluga
> > caviar is sold on the black market (was it 10x as much as is sold
> > legally!?). Opponents to the ban say that the current legal marketing
of
> > the roe contributes money to restoration and management efforts. If the
> > roe was banned, that money would no longer be available to restoration
> > efforts - at the same time, the demand on the black market would
continue
> > (probably increase) and cause further harm to the species.
> >
> > Yet another sticky situation in the sometimes seemingly hopeless world
of
> > conservation. (Wow, what a sentence - talk about alliteration.)
> >
> > Travis Haas
> > Hazel Green, WI
> >
> >
> >
> > At 10:27 PM 8/15/02, Rob wrote:
> > >This info. was passed on to me from a friend in Cleveland who heard
this
> on
> > >National Public Radio World News. Although not a native fish here, I
> just
> > >thought it might interest the list for comments... Read on...
> > >
> > >Rob C.
> > >
> > >Nikki Mezic of Cleveland, writes:
> > >
> > >Rob, did you know that the beluga sturgen is going to be put on the
> > >endangered
> > >species list? I guess their population has decreased by 90% in the past
> 20
> > >years. That's so disgusting, all for caviar...80% of which is sold to
the
> > >United States of course. We're the gluttons of the earth... Info from
> NPR
> > >World News.
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