Tokyo Island to Produce Caviar Amid Poor Spiny Lobster Counts
Tokyo will begin producing locally farmed caviar on Kozushima Island amid a decline in the number of spiny lobsters.
The Tokyo metropolitan government aims to cultivate sterlet sturgeon, which produce roe used to make caviar, creating a new income source for local fishermen. The caviar is expected to be on sale in jars and other forms by fiscal 2030.
Kozushima, in Tokyo's Izu Islands, is located 160 kilometers southwest of Haneda Airport, and 50 kilometers south of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. The island...
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