Welcome to North America, where you can discover caviar production across the United States and Canada, alongside native sturgeon, paddlefish and their protection status. Explore how a nineteenth century caviar boom shaped a region now home to farms and regulated wild fisheries.
California produces white sturgeon caviar, yet permits no white sturgeon harvest from the wild.
Read →American Caviar: Florida, North Carolina and the EastIn the nineteenth century, eastern America's caviar trade drew heavily on wild Atlantic sturgeon.
Read →The Mississippi Basin: Hackleback and PaddlefishIn 2021, the US Department of Justice reported a guilty plea by an Indiana commercial fisher who falsified reports to show Kentucky origin for paddlefish harvested from closed Ohio waters.
Read →Canadian CaviarNear Sechelt, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, Northern Divine Aquafarms raises white sturgeon.
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