Fish crisis degrades the taste of caviar

[anat0l]

Not sure this should go in "Travel News". The article makes no specific reference to airline demands or the like, and caviar is a rarity on board even in premium cabins today, but it is still there and some people here have had the experience of consuming the much treasured food item...

Article here at the SMH:

Fish crisis degrades the taste of caviar

Lovers of fine food face a shortage of Beluga caviar that may last more than a decade. Eurasian states are discussing a ban on catching sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.

Over-fishing has reduced the population of the fish that produces the delicacy by 90 per cent.

It has pushed the price up nearly sevenfold to $14,340 per kilogram, or $1434 for enough to make a sandwich.

 

[samh004]

I recall that last time I was in Hong Kong it would have cost about HK$7000 (or so) for about 50g of it. Maybe it was 100g, though I’m sure it was a very small tin. So it was expensive then and worse now? I guess I wont be trying it for a while!

 

[Flying Fox]

Thankfully I am currently on a low caviar diet

 

[drron]

Thankfully I am currently on a low caviar diet

And I'm supposed to be on a low everything diet!:shock: