A bright sustainable future

In recent years those who enjoy caviar and its smooth, rich, and silky taste are inevitably involved in the restrictions and new trade quotas enforced every year, in order to protect the endangered species of wild sturgeons form Caspian Sea. The first bans on producers from this region had the negative effective of arousing the illegal trade and black market of wild caviar. The predictions are that this trend will continue as a result of the recent announcement of the CITES from June 2008, to increase some countries quotas to export wild sturgeon caviar as well as including few other types of caviar produced of sturgeons from the Amur River area. The Science Daily, an online source of research news, quotes specific points from the interview with the Executive Director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Dr. Ellen Pikitch, who says:” we urge consumers to protest with their wallets by not purchasing any wild-caught caviar”. The CITES announcement foresees the export quotas for Caspian Sea sturgeon to remain the same as in 2007. Despite the fact that the quotas from the beginning of 2008 had set the permitted export slightly lower, additional rights have now been allocated to Turkmenistan (2,137 kg to be exported by Kazakhstan, and 40 kg by Russia). Quotas for Persian sturgeon caviar dropped to 37,000 kg from 38,000 kg and represent the only case in which a quota was voluntarily lowered.
(The Science Daily)

The article is a clear sign that alternative ways of producing caviar have to be adopted and followed, in order producers to maintain constant supply of high quality caviar and protect endangered wild species and ecosystems. Farmed caviar demands exceptional care, preparation resources, and continuous improvement of the environment, but all these efforts result in a very competitive, premium quality product. The main players on the caviar market have already established aqua farms in the US, Uruguay, and France.

The ZwyerCaviar is one of the companies following the call for conservation and environmental control. The company envisions the future of the highest class caviar in sustainable aqua farming. The company’s caviar production relies completely on the farm grown sturgeons coming from the untouched ecosystems of Rio Negro, Uruguay. The ZwyerCaviar has been exclusively produced for the Swiss market by an authorized and accredited producer under the international CITES laws and regulations, and in accordance with the European Union (PP34), US Fish and Wildlife regulatory commission (HACC), Japan and many other regulations. The ZwyerCaviar comes from a sustainable controlled and responsible aqua farming environment and is noted for its gastronomic excellence, equal only to the best from Caspian Sea.