Word: transmontanus
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...bearer of these tidings is A. transmontanus, the big Pacific sturgeon. A sister under the skin to the Black Sea species, it runs naturally up California's Sacramento River. (In the 19th century, sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of caviar to Europe.) These overlooked aristocrats have been extracted from the stream by the University of California at Davis, which plans to breed them in vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop...
Capitalism swam in with Swedish-born Mats and Daphne Engstrom, whose California Sunshine Inc. has worked for two years to make caviar pearls of Davis-raised A. transmontanus eggs. One day last week the California consortium transformed the U.S. Senate's Mike Mansfield Room into a caviarteria. The guests enthusiastically downed 20 Ibs. of caviar and 30 Ibs. of smoked sturgeon as well as 70 bottles of California champagne. A caviar connoisseur from TIME, Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, was on hand; on a scale of 1 to 10, he "rated the West Coast product at 8. The price...
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