{"id":11437,"date":"2010-07-26T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/beluga-caviar-back-on-table\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:22:38","slug":"beluga-caviar-back-on-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/beluga-caviar-back-on-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Beluga caviar back on table"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reputedly the finest form of caviar, beluga, is back on the table this year, after five key source countries agreed on export quotas for the delicacy.<\/p>\n
Trade in beluga caviar <\/strong>was halted last year as countries failed to agree on quotas, in line with a 2002 CITES agreement.<\/p>\n But during a meeting in Tehran, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan agreed on the latest quotas which would run until February 28, 2011.<\/p>\n The new beluga quotas are: zero for Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, 800 kg for Iran, 1,500 kg for Kazakhstan and 700 kg for Russia. A temporary ban on wild caviar was imposed in 2001 due to a depletion of stocks amid high levels of poaching and illegal trade in the Caspian Sea.<\/p>\n This was later lifted and in 2002, countries sharing a stock of sturgeons automatically have zero quotas unless they reach a consensus on a sustainable level of exports.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
As caviar stocks declined through the 1990s, member states of CITES had listed all sturgeon species on its Appendix II, thereby requiring government approval for trade in these products.<\/p>\n