Caviar Briefcase
June 30, 2010
The small Italian luxury brand A. Testoni is known because of its great shoe design for both, men and women.
Recently it created a very slick classy briefcase made of calf leather and named it caviar briefcase.
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How much banning is needed? (part II)
June 28, 2010
(Click here to read the first part)
Back in April I wrote a post about a mere rumour, that the Caspian Sea border states are planning to ban sturgeon fishing for the duration of ten years. This proposal is to be seen under the fact, that all five border states in 2006 and 2009 failed to agree on export quotas in order to conserve the already fast dwindling sturgeon stocks. This agreement must be based on scientific facts and surveys complying with the policy in protecting remaining stocks. Since over a ear and a half there is an export ban on all black caviar from the Caspian Sea.
(Of course this doesn’t mean one can’t find any wild caviar these days. There is. But the delicacy has to be smuggled or two and a half years old…Either way, no reassuring reasons to spend your money as it could be a label fraud, rotten goods or an unintended act of supporting a crime organization.)
The possible future ban on sturgeon fishing was earlier mentioned to endure ten year, then only five. And now it seems that the bar was raised up to fifteen years. But with the slow maturation rate of the sturgeons in mind (the females take up to fifteen years to reach fertility) this would mean – at best – to maintain the current stocks instead of populating growth.
A fifteen years ban? For some a bold attempt. For most simply not good enough. Triple the years and the sturgeons in the Caspian Sea could maybe have a bright future.
But even if such a ban could come into existence, it would not solve the problem of lack of control and corruption (the Caspian Sea is a very vast place!) and the high risk of pollution that comes with oil drilling. And all three put the sturgeon where he is today: on the edge of the abyss.
For all wild caviar lovers who want to ease mind & palate, head for premium farmed caviar.
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Oil drilling in the Caspian
June 24, 2010
In the aftermath of the current disaster taking place in the Gulf of Mexico one might ask what would be the scale of event if something similar happened in the Caspian Sea? The worlds biggest inland body of water and home of aprox. 80% of the worlds sturgeon populations?
The threat in the Caspian due to Oil drilling is nothing new of course. I posted some articles pointing out this issue (click here and here).
The outcome would of course be nothing else then catastrophic. But one doesn’t need to go so far. Even today we know for a fact, that the natural ressources of the Caspian Sea is under heavy bombardment. The combination of poaching, overfishing, lack of control, corruption, oil and gas pullution, wastewater sewers, hidroelectric power plants, etc. lead to a worse then hideous picture. Its pure shame.
The stories about high toxic metals such as arsenic, mercury and copper around the coastline of the Caspian Sea, harming not only the soon to be extinct sturgeons and seals, but even more importantly the health of its coastal human population, speak in a crystal clear manner: The era of wild caviar is over. Full stop.
The future is premium farmed caviar. The future is ZwyerCaviar.
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