Biologists from World Wildlife Fund informed that selling and eating of black caviar is against Russian laws but this tasty fish eggs regularly appear in shops and also being exported freely. Caspian Sea is already suffering from excessive fishing that affects the population of sturgeon fish. And it shows that the Russian fishing industry both legal and illegal eliminating nearly all spawning sturgeons.
It was in August 2007 when the ban on retail sale of sturgeon caviar was introduced. The ban was the first and necessary stage in long chain of activities, aimed at termination of illegal fishing and prevention of ecological catastrophe. This year Russian authorities allowed quotas of sturgeon exclusively for recruiting sturgeons for brood stocks at fish breeding farms and for scientific research.
According to WWF experts the state should be accurate with quota figures of sturgeon. It also said that since Russia is fighting illegal fishing it should lay a moratorium on black caviar export of minimum of five years. According to biologists the present conditions and dynamics of sturgeon populations do not allow fishing or commercial use these fishes.
