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Gill said he plans to revamp the decor of Tommy’s and to expand the restaurant’s menu, hoping to introduce new items such as fish and chips, wraps and fish sandwiches...
...Trying to convince Tommy’s to sell a fish sandwich...
...five countries that border the Caspian Sea - the world's premier producers of caviar - have taken a critical step toward protecting the ancient fish that is at the center of a modern economic and environmental dispute. In launching a coordinated, science-based program for managing and preserving sturgeon stocks - replacing the competing national systems of past years - Iran and four former Soviet republics also met international requirements for proceeding with this year's caviar harvest...
...many spoonfuls are there?" mused a caviar exporter quoted by an official of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES. Holding those spoons as they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy secretary-general of CITES. Under the unified system...
...factors - including reduced river flow, destruction of spawning sites, poaching, organized crime, corruption and illicit trade - have contributed to a decline in the past 20 years. Before the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, that country and Iran controlled the world caviar market. They invested heavily in maintaining fish stocks, and tracking the source of any shipment was straightforward. In the post-Soviet era, though, that system collapsed and private entrepreneurs moved...