Caviarist.com – Member of the W.S.C.S.
January 14, 2009 · Print This Article
New Year intentions. It’s that time of year again. Again and again we vow to some unachievable or half-baked goals. The results are mostly a complete failure. Ashamed by ourselfes, we burry our empty words sometime between summer and autumn.
The Caviarist proves it better (altough there might be some soon-to-be-failed intentions already standing in line…)! In the search for an organization which is really dedicated in the conservation of the sturgeon species and restauration of sturgeon stocks worldwide and which earns a high credibility, I found the answer in the W.S.C.S. (yep, it may sound a bit too religious…).
But let them speak in their words:
“The Society intends to act as an international forum of scientific discussion for all persons interested in pertinent issues on sturgeons while at the same time seeking opportunities for close co-operation at an international level.
The vision for this society is to see stocks thriving once again in important sturgeon waters in the basins of Caspian, Asov, Black, North and Baltic seas, rivers in Siberia and China as well as in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada in addition to other North American watersheds. The Society therefore hopes through its activities to enhance the understanding of species protection world-wide and across national borders in regions with different cultural and political backgrounds (using the highly endangered sturgeons as case examples) in order to foster the sustainable use of natural resources that are traded globally. ” to read more…
The World Sturgeon Conservation Society e. V. might be a new thing. But it’s scientific gathering of high profilers within the caviar business is the key. Their commitment is very strong. And so is the commitment of the Caviarist to do really something good for the remaining wild sturgeons - besides this blog.
New Years intentions. It’s that time of year again. But this time, this one is for the winning team!
BTW: The W.S.C.S. is co-organizing this years International Symposium on Sturgeon (ISS6), which is held in Wuhan, China from the 25th to the 30th October.
The North American Chapter of WSCS is also organizing and hosting a sturgeon symposium this August at the American Fisheries Society annual national meeting in Nashville (details on the AFS webpage). The focus will be on how individual North American sturgeons and paddlefish are doing, and what the primary science questions are now and into the future. As a member of the symposium committee, let me confirm that we welcome and encourage culturists and cavair producers to join NAC-WSCS, attend the symposium in Nashville (and/or in China), and actively participate in advancing sturgeon research and conservation. Visit the WSCS webpage for more on our mission, and opportunities to join, get involved, and get access to several major sturgeon publications available through the society.