Caviar at risk as ardour threatens sturgeon annihilation

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow 700AM GMT twenty March 2010

seventeen of the twenty-seven sturgeon class are personal as critically involved Photo ALAMY

The fish have swum in the world"s seas for some-more than 200 million years but poaching and a outrageous ardour for black caviar, the fish"s unfertilised eggs, risk wiping the sturgeon out altogether, it said.

"Sturgeon have survived thespian shift over the past 250 million years usually to face the critical hazard of apropos archaic as a approach outcome of human activities," pronounced Mohammad Pourkazemi, an central at the Swiss-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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"Illegal catch, overfishing, the violation up of the roving routes and wickedness are the key elements that have driven roughly all class to the margin of extinction," he pronounced in the statement.

The organisation estimated that 85 per cent of wild sturgeon are right away at a really high risk of apropos archaic and pronounced it had been forced to systematise seventeen of the twenty-seven sturgeon class as critically endangered.

Experts pronounced the group"s murky conclusions were a musical instrument call for obligatory movement and would enlarge vigour on countries such as Iran to determine to a ten-year duration on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea after this month.

Russia, traditionally a big consumer of the tainted delicacy, is pronounced to behind such a ban. Black caviar, the majority sought-after accumulation (there is additionally red caviar), can cost as most as �3,000 per kilogram.