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, ...

Ali Bolourchi, president of Tsar Nicoulai, shows part of the sturgeon hatchery on the farm in Wilton, Calif. (Gregory Urquiaga / UC Davis) Ali Bolourchi ’05, M.B.A. ’12, leads a tour of his caviar ...

GALT, Calif. -- Two decades ago when some wild-eyed entrepreneurs decided to raise sturgeon on catfish farms here, they knew it would be a gamble. Sturgeon had never been commercially raised in the ...

Yes, it’s possible — affordable, even. Sacramento County produces more than 80% of the United States’ domestic caviar, yet area residents don’t always experience the fruits of that labor as regional ...

New protections for white sturgeon may impact farm water supplies and increase costs for local water agencies. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo) California’s effort to protect an ...

This is the first step to involving the farms in WWF’s sturgeon conservation programme Eight companies – four in Bulgaria and four in Romania – have signed WWF’s Code of Conduct on sturgeon protection ...

There is no rest for Matey Mateev in the run up to the festive season as the world's gastronauts dig deep to splash out on his beluga caviar. "We are in the peak season as Christmas is approaching," ...

State wildlife officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that would allow both the farming of a foreign fish that's currently banned in Louisiana and a similar native fish considered less ...

Some of the world's best caviar comes from an unlikely place. KIBBUTZ DAN, Israel, June 8, 2012 -- The large fish are hurled from the pond into a bright yellow bin, lifted onto a cart and wheeled over ...