New Brunswick-based sturgeon caviar company seeks legal change to sell in US
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] - November 14, 2014 -
A New Brunswick caviar company is petitioning the United States government to lift restrictions that prevent the sale of its product south of the border.
Breviro Caviar raises shortnose sturgeon in tanks at its headquarters in Pennfield.
Shortnose sturgeon is considered an endangered species in the United States and there is a prohibition of any product from the fish being marketed in the country.
Under a 1967 ruling, the United States government places Canadian sturgeon in the same bracket as their endangered cousins across the border.
The rule does not distinguish between fish from the wild and farm-raised fish...
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