How one Maritime farm is bringing back an endangered fish – and its caviar
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Jun. 03, 2011 8:16PM EDT
Last updated Sunday, Jun. 05, 2011 8:23AM EDT
The democratization of caviar is under way.
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Jun. 03, 2011 8:16PM EDT
Last updated Sunday, Jun. 05, 2011 8:23AM EDT
The democratization of caviar is under way.
The hotbed of thisrevolution is Pennfield, N.B., home to the world’s only company licensed to produce and sell an ultra-exclusive variety of caviar. Extracted from the shortnose sturgeon – an endangered, dinosaur-era fish known as acipenser brevirostrum – it’s a delicacy made from the salted roe of a breed with just one population in the Canadian wild. The species is so imperilled that international trade regulators have blocked commercial sales for more than 30 years.
One Maritime fish farm, Breviro Caviar, has spent millions over the past decade coaxing thousands of these sturgeon to maturity. With a stint in receivership and a change in ownership behind it, the company is finally embarking on a global rollout of the world’s first farmed-raised, legally sourced shortnose caviar.
Trade bans and the difficulty of raising the large fish indoors have deterred mass attempts of offshore sturgeon farming, making it an innovative form of aquaculture. But caviar connoisseurs are predicting the niche is about to widen.
“All the cruise liners and airplanes will carry it again,” said Steven Omidi of The Caviar Centre, a Toronto-based vendor that sells products from around the world in-store and online.
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