The Caspian Sea has a number of different species of sturgeon, the fish that yields the highly prized delicacy caviar. Between 80-90% of the world's caviar is sourced from the Caspian, but the ...

Sturgeon are ancient marine creatures that have been prowling the planet’s waters from the South China Sea to the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic for 200 million years. By the early 1900s ...

They’re seasoned travelers, making the longest migration of any sturgeon in the world. Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles from the East China Sea to their spawning ...

Though the world of caviar has vastly changed, the criteria for what makes good caviar hasn’t. Draxler judges caviar by egg ...

The lake sturgeon, with its sleek shape and rows of bony plates on its sides, looks a bit like an armored torpedo. These freshwater giants have greenish-grey coloring and elongated, spade-like ...

Atlantic sturgeon are born in freshwater and migrate to the sea. Sturgeon populations began to drop steeply more than 100 years ago amid pollution, dam construction and overfishing. The decline ...

The era of farmed caviar has led to cross-breeding sturgeon in pursuit of the finest eggs. One example is the Kaluga hybrid, ...