Boycot Beluga...

I noticed that my Google Ads include one for finecaviar.com offering Beluga. I can't pick and choose my google ads... I'm investigating but otherwise here's some info...

The caspian is beinng overfished and the sturgeon are generally not mature...
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Science magazine: “We found very few mature           sturgeon,” says Dr. Arkadiusz Labon, a Toronto-based fisheries           consultant who coordinated the first internationally observed fish           stock survey in the Caspian in 2001. “That’s a sure sign           of dramatic overfishing.” Labon argues that a 10-year fishing           ban—without loopholes such as a permissible “scientific” catch—is           essential to rescue the sturgeon from extinction. (Jan 18, 2002)

Newsweek magazine: “Ninety percent of young           adults have been fished,” says Raisa Khodorevskaya, a senior           sturgeon researcher the Caspian Fisheries Research Institute in Russia. “It’s           like after the second world war—there are plenty of young ones,           but most of the adults are gone.” CITES may ultimately have to           resort to a comprehensive boycott of caviar, similar to its successful           moratorium on ivory in 1990. At best, the fight to save the sturgeon           will take decades to win. (July 30, 2001)

 

The New York Times: Alexander Kitanov of the Bios           hatchery on the Volga said he was unable to catch enough mature [beluga]           females to produce his quota of fingerlings and now had to rely on           adults he had been housing for just this purpose. (Jan 6, 2004)

Conservation Biology magazine: “With           natural spawning habitat reduced by at least 90% by dam construction           and the hatcheries in collapse, any continued fishing may end up vacuuming           up the remaining immature individuals, leading to both biological and           economic extinction of the [beluga sturgeon] species,” said Dr.           Joshua Ginsberg, director of WCS Asia and Africa programs. (Oct 2002)

Interfax News Service: The only Kazakhstani fish           plant, Atyraubalyk in Atyrau oblast, western Kazakhstan, has produced           7 tons of black caviar this year. “It is much less than in 2002           when the company produced 15 tons of black caviar,” the company’s           vice-president Abulkhair Muhsanov told Interfax. He explained that           the reduction in volume was due to fewer sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.           (Nov 13, 2003)

Agence France Presse: Russia has halved its production           of black caviar in 2003 to 50 tonnes and reduced its exports from 30           tonnes last year to 20 tonnes this year, state fisheries officials           told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The reductions are an effort to boost           dwindling sturgeon stocks. While the reductions in caviar production           and the efforts made to restock through artificial reproduction will           have some effect, this is likely to be undermined by the practice of           sturgeon poaching and caviar smuggling. (Nov 21, 2003)

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I love fishing every weekend I go with my son to the lake in a small boat that my father gave me during an afternoon fishing together, is very nice to share those experiences between parents and children, I think in these times we should encourage more families to play sports or an activity with your children, family ties serves to unite.