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Overfishing has depleted stocks of sturgeon in the northern Caspian Sea, and in response, Russia and several of its neighbors recently restricted their harvests of the caviar-bearing fish. That could offer an opportunity for U.S. producers of caviar from pen-raised sturgeon, led by the pioneering Stolt Sea Farm of Elverta, Calif. But do the texture and taste measure up? We asked the executive chefs of two of New York City's top seafood restaurants--Rick Moonen of Oceana, pictured, and Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit--to sample unmarked servings of Russian Osetra caviar and Sterling Classic brand, produced...
...Sturgeon Bay, Wis., where Mary Dunn was born in 1930, is wedged on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan. Dunn attended classes in a two-room schoolhouse there until the start of the Second World War, when her father, a haberdasher, was drafted into the Army...
...create competition for their already flowing Siberian oil. Moscow still feels the same but hasn't figured out how to head off the flow of Caspian oil or to grab a large chunk of the profit. Russia does insert an environmental argument: the oil industry could threaten the Caspian sturgeon and its oily treasure, caviar. For its part, Iran says it will cooperate in Caspian development only if it gets, say, a 20% share of the sea's resources. Both Russia and Iran prefer that pipelines carrying Caspian oil be built or expanded over their territory...
...national racing colors for their flagship images: silver for Germany, white for Italy, red for Britain." You got only one of three national auto-racing colors right, Germany's, which is indeed silver. But Britain's is green, not red, and Italy's is red, not white. DONALD L. STURGEON Wilmington, Delaware
...will not be easy. One problem, contends Harvard's Tabin, is that Duboule and his colleagues studied "the wrong fish." Zebrafish are prolific and easy to raise under laboratory conditions, but they are advanced in evolutionary terms. A study of more primitive sea life, such as sharks or sturgeon, might yield greater amounts of evolutionary information; even better subjects would be lungfish and coelacanths, mysterious, nearly extinct creatures that lurk in the ocean depths and are the living fish closest to the fishlike ancestors of four-legged animals...