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Black market caviar threatens California’s giant fish

When wildlife officers with California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife raided two houses in the Sacramento area earlier this year, they found a live sturgeon gasping for breath, barely alive, on the floor in the garage of one. And in the other they discovered more than 20 jars of caviar, screens used to separate sturgeon eggs from the membrane that binds them together, frozen sturgeon meat, and scales for weighing meat and eggs… Source

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