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...astounding fact is that 85% of the world's supply of this capitalist treat comes from the Caspian Sea, and all Caspian sturgeon breed in a single 1,000-acre sand-and-gravel spawning ground near the mouth of Russia's Volga River-even those caught in Iranian waters. An article in Russia's highbrow literary newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, signed by a group of intellectuals that included eight biologists, contained a dire warning that the completion of a projected hydroelectric power station would reduce the spawning grounds to a mere 22 acres...
Would virgin sturgeon, urged or unurged, find some other spawning ground? Probably not, said the scientists gloomily. The industrial pollution of European and American waterways has gradually eliminated the big fish just about everywhere but in the Caspian. And every effort to encourage the sturgeon to breed in substitute man-made environments has met with total failure. The signers concluded with the questionably Marxist speculation that maybe a bit more electricity was hardly worth having no caviar to go with one's well-chilled vodka...
...only rent him." As a result, the Russians are becoming more selective in their aid, smarter in getting more for their money. In Iran they are collaborating in sensible, largely unpolitical, neighborly ventures: planning dams on their common border, stocking the Caspian Sea, which the two countries share, with sturgeon to keep the caviar flowing. In Turkey, too, they have proposed a joint border hydroelectric project. But for all their frustrations in the southern Arab nations, the Soviets have nonetheless succeeded in creating a Russian presence and influence where it never existed before-as well as in arming Arabs, which...
...country (none had been there in the first place). As Iran shares an uneasy 1,500-mile border with the Soviet Union, Washington could hardly protest. Since then Iran has accepted all kinds of Soviet economic aid, including breeding facilities on the Caspian Sea for 3,500,000 sturgeon, which will put it in a better position to compete with Russian caviar. Just before Brezhnev's visit, the Kremlin's East European satellites offered $160 million in easy credit...
...Dwight Fiske ditty that holds that "caviar comes from virgin sturgeon" is biologically misleading. Since sturgeon eggs are fertilized externally, after they have been released by egg-bearing females, all female sturgeons are virgins, by mammalian standards, whether or not they have produced caviar...