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boxtops | 18:11 Mon 25th May 2015 | Food & Drink
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I've just been watching a programme about people paying obscene prices for luxury food and drink - including caviar.

The sturgeon is a huge fish, but I've never seen it on a menu. What happens to the fish after it's been killed and the roe/caviar extracted?
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Cat food?
sturgeon erm - a la Nicoise ?

I am not sure I could stomach it
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I've never seen it identified there either!
I don't think the fish is necessarily killed in the process of extraction - but my memory may be wrong.
unfortunately I thing they kill the fish

http://www.vjcx.com/pictures/extracting-caviar.jpg

Reminds me of an old Rugby song 'Virgin Sturgeon needs no urgin' that's why caviar is my dish' lol!
Once the sturgeon has served it's purpose, to organise lesser fish into a noisy but largely ineffectual shoal, the salmon returns to claim the prize as his own.
'Wild sturgeon fillets (whether fresh or frozen) are mainly available online or ordered direct from specialist fishmongers.'
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It's definitely killed - I saw the dead fish in the prog I was watching. It's a huge fish.
Big ones are, smaller ones are not so big....
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Presumably there is more roe in the big 'uns - these people scanned the fish before they killed it, to make sure it was worth it....
Becomes a politician?
There are lots of recipes on the internet.
apparently people are trying now to farm sturgeon because the fish is becoming endangered.
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-produce-caviar-without-killing-sturgeon-massage
The nhs is getting worse if all this is to believed
I always thought that Sturgeons when caught became the property of the Monarch of the UK.

When did this law change.?
errm only if caught in UK waters SirOracle
I think the eggs/roe are manually extracted, and the fish is put back to water.
Aren't they all farmed now - I'm sure I watched the same programme (World's most expensive foods (or something similar)). Not saying that makes it any better what happens to the actual fish.
They farm salmon -they still kill them.
I was responding to Woofgang actually.

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