International caviar trade banned
The global trade in caviar and other products made from the wild, endangered sturgeon fish has been banned.
“We were unable to approve the export quotas for this year,” a spokesman for Cites, the convention for trade in endangered species, told BBC News.
The ban was imposed for scientific reasons and to bring an end to illegal poaching in the Caspian Sea, he said.
In recent years, about 110-150 tonnes of caviar have been exported each year from the region under a quota system.
Much of this is still available in shops.
Source: BBC.
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