Russian fisheries officials said that the government has approved to set up a state caviar monopoly and to strict the punishments of poacher to prevent the sturgeon, tsar fish, from extinction. The eggs of the sturgeon, caviar, are on demand as it is supplied to Europe, Asia and US on high prices illegitimately.
The idea of setting up Russian caviar monopoly has been introduced several times before but in vain. Russia’s chief fisheries official, Andrei Krainiy, informed that the cabinet has drafted a law, of state regulation of the whole process, from nurturing sturgeon to its processing and sale.
Krainiy also informed that poaching of sturgeon has decrease the population of it by 90 percent over the past 20 years. Fisheries wardens in the Caspian Sea are losing the battle against heavily armed poachers. Krainiy is planning to implant electronic ships into sturgeon to help in regulating the catch. He said that total state monopoly would help to minimize the illegal poaching of sturgeon for its eggs. He also informed that even private sectors would have a place in this monopoly but state will regulate the whole process very strictly.
