A fish farm in tiny Bascom may be part of solving a big and growing international problem. With beluga sturgeon populations dwindling after many years of overfishing and damming that cut them off from ...

‘Tis the season for — among many other traditions, customs and family rituals — eating caviar. For the uninitiated, caviar is not just “fish eggs”: it’s a salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae, ...

Ali Bolourchi, president of Tsar Nicoulai, shows part of the sturgeon hatchery on the farm in Wilton, Calif. (Gregory Urquiaga / UC Davis) Ali Bolourchi ’05, M.B.A. ’12, leads a tour of his caviar ...

As the sun rises over the Sacramento Valley, the ranch hands at Tsar Nicoulai prepare for an early morning roundup. Unlike traditional livestock ranches, this farm specializes in sturgeon, producing ...

New protections for white sturgeon may impact farm water supplies and increase costs for local water agencies. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo) California’s effort to protect an ...

State wildlife officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that would allow both the farming of a foreign fish that's currently banned in Louisiana and a similar native fish considered less ...

GALT, Calif. -- Two decades ago when some wild-eyed entrepreneurs decided to raise sturgeon on catfish farms here, they knew it would be a gamble. Sturgeon had never been commercially raised in the ...

Could Maryland’s first farmed salmon be a threat to the last of its sturgeon? Lovers of the sturgeon, a species as old as dinosaurs that was once thought to have disappeared from the Chesapeake Bay, ...

Lovers of the sturgeon, a species as old as dinosaurs that was once thought to have disappeared from the Chesapeake Bay, worry its fate could hinge on what happens with a massive salmon farm planned ...

Some of the world's best caviar comes from an unlikely place. KIBBUTZ DAN, Israel, June 8, 2012 -- The large fish are hurled from the pond into a bright yellow bin, lifted onto a cart and wheeled over ...