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CASPIAN CAVIAR Supplies have been slowed while a U.N. agency, concerned about the endangered sturgeon, decides on export quotas...
...floes that - carried by high winds - can crush conventional offshore rigs. So Agip, the operating arm of Italy's ENI charged with developing the field, built concrete-and-steel islands from which to drill. Even more daunting, Kashagan oil lies below the spawning grounds of the Caspian's beluga sturgeon, the sole source of world-renowned beluga caviar. So Agip is making sure no waste material from its drilling is discharged into the Caspian Sea, and has employed a technology for recycling waste water previously only used on submarines. The environmental and technological risks mean that, all told, development...
...entitled “ELECTROVIDEOMOVE,” the Royal Jelly Collective presents an evening of multimedia performance featuring the music of Vers, Scrap.edx, Codec and DJ Phat_mk3, the film of Produkt and Rat, the dancing of Nicole Bindler, Joe Burgio and Teresa Czepiel and special guest Crank Sturgeon. 7 p.m. $7 donation. The Zeitgeist Gallery, 1351 Cambridge St. Inman Square, Cambridge...
...that savoring strange creatures was really common only among the Cantonese or poor rural folk. But these days, even Shanghai residents are hungry for a taste of the wild. With the city's fortunes on the rise, eating endangered animals such as the Yangtze crocodile or Chinese sturgeon has become yet another way to flaunt one's wealth. Restaurateur Ng says his biggest spenders forked over an average of $120 per diner, in a city where the average monthly income is $130. "They order a lot of expensive things, like steamed cobra," he says, "but then they don't actually...
...Caspian caviar gets harder to come by, all sorts of alternatives are popping up. Scientists can't get their hands on enough beluga sturgeon to start breeding them in the U.S. (there are fewer than five in the 50 states), but America does have its own natural population of sturgeon and sturgeonlike fish. Roe from native white sturgeon and its close cousin, the paddlefish, is becoming increasingly popular. Stolt Sea Farm, near Sacramento, California, has boosted production of its Sterling-brand caviar of farmed white sturgeon from 23 kilograms in 1995 to more than six tons a year...