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Caviar has been farm raised for a while now. Almost all the stuff on the market is farm raised. I have a tin of farm-raised Canadian sturgeon caviar in my fridge right now...

They even have techniques to extract the eggs without killing the fish.

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Any chance you can link to brands that "extract the eggs without killing the fish"?

Not sure about every brand (there's over 2000 caviar farms apparently) but a few I found:

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/features/ethical-caviar-fa...

https://californiacaviar.com/pages/our-story

https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/meet-frances-no-kil...

Not killing the fish is an obvious way to increase the farm's yield so I imagine most producers are interested in it. Sturgeon meat isn't particularly demanded either...

Sturgeon is utterly delicious. Hot-smoked sturgeon is an incredible delicacy and it's an absolute riot when grilled.

I like it but many don't. Certainly not as in-demand as salmon, tuna, halibut, etc...

It's not as available because it's endangered species, not because there's no demand.

There's around 2000 sturgeon farms in the world, literally what this thread is about... It's still not demanded. The farm I get caviar from basically gives away smoked sturgeon...

I'd like to try it some time. Here's an Azerbaijani man with a 16 minute YouTube video, no words, carving up a sturgeon, roasting it, and feeding his family. 22 MILLION views.

https://youtu.be/hyu11H9ROQQ

Such a great channel. Love the videos where he cooks on his wood burning stove in the mountains.

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