stackyFACTSEating fish eggs used to be a death sentence for the fish. Wild beluga sturgeon populations crashed because harvesters had to kill the fish to extract the roe. Now heavily restricted, the extreme difficulty of raising massive, slow-growing river monsters in captivity keeps tiny black eggs astronomically priced.
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