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Canada's first caviar farm eyes French market 04 January, 2007 -
According to CBC News, the company's marketing manager, Bruce Marie, is heading to Paris to sell the delicacy in Europe. France already produces its own farmed caviar, but Marie thinks he can convince connoisseurs there to add caviar from New Brunswick to their hors d'oeuvres. "French farm raised caviar supply is limited, and we have a quality which is a little bit better than the French one," he reportedly said. Since November, the company's golden fish eggs have been on the menus of some of the most chic restaurants in Quebec. A 30-gram jar sells for about $100. The prehistoric sturgeon are among the most primitive of the bony fish, and the shortnose sturgeon is the smallest of the three sturgeon species that inhabit eastern North America. Able to reach lengths of up to three feet, its habitat is the Atlantic seaboard rivers, river mouths, lakes and bays. Originally farmed in Russia in 1870, the sturgeon has become a valuable and marketable farmed fish. The ancient fish are well-suited to aquaculture technologies because they adapt well to commercially available fish feeds and are resistant to disease. Shortnose sturgeon is an excellent source of caviar because the fish mature relatively quickly. www.fishfarmer-magazine.com is published by Special Publications. Special Publications also publishes FISHupdate.com, FISHupdate magazine, Fish Farmer, the Fish Industry Yearbook, the Scottish Seafood Processors Federation Diary, the Fish Farmer Handbook and a range of wallplanners.
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