--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: Brian Haas <bhaas_at_netexpress.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Beluga Sturgeon
>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:14:57 -0500
>
>I also heard the report. USFWS is considering putting a ban on the
>importation and sale of Beluga caviar in the U.S. in order to help out the
>sturgeon. The flip side of this is that an enormous amount of Beluga
>caviar is sold on the black market (was it 10x as much as is sold
>legally!?). Opponents to the ban say that the current legal marketing of
>the roe contributes money to restoration and management efforts. If the
>roe was banned, that money would no longer be available to restoration
>efforts - at the same time, the demand on the black market would continue
>(probably increase) and cause further harm to the species.
>
>Yet another sticky situation in the sometimes seemingly hopeless world of
>conservation. (Wow, what a sentence - talk about alliteration.)
>
>Travis Haas
>Hazel Green, WI
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