Welcome to Harvesting Caviar, where you can explore how roe is collected from sturgeon and why the timing of harvest matters. Discover the different methods and the welfare questions surrounding them, with guides to help you find your way.
Follow caviar harvesting from checking egg ripeness to clean processing, and discover how live collection differs from the conventional route.
Read →Traditional Harvest and Humane StunningExplore the history of sturgeon harvest and learn how evidence distinguishes humane stunning from methods that leave fish merely immobile.
Read →Harvest Timing: Checking Egg RipenessDiscover how farms use ultrasound and egg samples to judge ripeness and spot signs of degeneration before harvest.
Read →No-Kill Caviar: Stripping, Massage and Ovulated EggsDiscover how eggs are collected from living sturgeon, why ovulated eggs need different processing, and what collection claims can and cannot tell you.
Read →More guides on this topic are being researched and will appear here as they are published.
