The fish farm aims to export 30 tons of salt-cured caviar and 2,000 tons of sturgeon meat in three years. Islami expects to earn $90 million a year based on an average price of $1,360 a pound for ...

GOLDASHT, Iran – On the shores of the Caspian Sea, an ambitious project is underway to produce a pricey delicacy that could boost Iran's economy as sanctions ease: caviar. Iran, once the world's ...

Once the world’s biggest exporter of the luxury food, Iran sold more than 40 tons of sturgeon eggs in 2000. ... About 110,000 of the fish are beluga, the species that produce prized, ...

Then, in 2010, sturgeon farming got a boost after Iran signed a ban on sturgeon fishing with Russia and the three other former Soviet republics that are part of the Caspian Sea basin.

Deputy Minister of Agricultural and Head of Iran Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi made the remarks adding “in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), Iran took a major step in the ...

Iran Materials 9 February 2012 14:43 (UTC +04:00) For the first time, Iranian scientists have succeeded in producing farmed caviar from the Persian sturgeon the Iranian Students’ News Agency reports ...

Some of the world's best caviar comes from an unlikely place. KIBBUTZ DAN, Israel, June 8, 2012 -- The large fish are hurled from the pond into a bright yellow bin, lifted onto a cart and wheeled ...