Inside America's Only Legally Operating Beluga Caviar Farm

We visited the only caviar farm in the United States legally allowed to breed beluga sturgeon. Russian immigrant Mark Zaslavsky brought live beluga into the country in 2003, just before the US government banned imports of the species in 2005. Beluga sturgeon are native to the Caspian Sea, and are classified as critically endangered by the World Wildlife Fund. The farm breeds five different types of sturgeon, some of which don’t take as long to mature as beluga, which allows the company to harvest their eggs for caviar and take them them to market. Zaslavsky has pledged, as part of his agreement with the US government, to donate fertilized beluga eggs in the hopes that they will eventually strengthen the population of beluga in the wild. MORE FOOD BUSINESS CONTENT: Why Lobster Is So Expensive | So Expensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gr_gMSF0c0 Why Tiger Fugu Is So Expensive | So Expensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JguUVIpFRg4 Why Dragon Fish Are So Expensive | So Expensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wpLPQPfoI ------------------------------------------------------ #Caviar #Farm #BusinessInsider Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more. Visit us at: https://www.businessinsider.com Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/businessinsider BI on Facebook: https://read.bi/2xOcEcj BI on Instagram: https://read.bi/2Q2D29T BI on Twitter: https://read.bi/2xCnzGF BI on Amazon Prime: http://read.bi/PrimeVideo -------------------------------------------------- Inside America's Only Beluga Caviar Farm