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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — A year-old international ban on the export of beluga caviar, the most expensive and most endangered variety of the delicacy, harvested largely by Caspian Sea countries, has been lifted by the United Nations agency charged with controlling trade in endangered species.

 

Rejecting marine scientists’ calls for a continuation of the ban, Willem Wijnstekers, the head of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as Cites, said that the five Caspian countries could export 3.7 tons in 2007, a 29 percent decrease from 2005 levels.

 

The agency’s decision does not change the situation in the United States, which banned the import or interstate transport of both beluga caviar and its slightly less lofty cousins, sevruga and osetra, in the fall of 2005. But it raises concern about the health of the Caspian sturgeon population.

 

According to Julia Roberson of the environmental group Caviar Emptor, beluga stocks in the Caspian declined by 45 percent between 2004 and 2005, the most recent data available. “The same document showed historic population lows” for the osetra and sevruga sturgeon as well, she said.

 

“The whole purpose of Cites is to allow trade only if there is a nondetrimental finding,” Ms. Roberson added, “and this screams to me it’s detrimental to the fish.”

 

Last month, Ellen Pikitch, the executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, along with 22 colleagues in the United States and Canada, wrote Mr. Wijnstekers that the beluga sturgeon population “simply cannot withstand commercial exploitation in its current condition” and called for a continuation of the export ban for another year.

 

In an interview, Dr. Pikitch added that, given the length of time the United States has barred importing the delicacy, “Anything you find on the shelves today is either illegal or unsafe to eat.”

 

Rod Gable, the official of the federal Fish and Wildlife Service charged with management of commerce in endangered or threatened species, said Monday that he believed that the shelf life of caviar is 18 months.

 

But Armen Petrossian, the president of Petrossian, the caviar dealer based in Paris, said he was surprised the new international export quota was not higher than it was. He said the Caspian producing countries had requested a quota 50 percent higher than the one announced Monday.

 

“Allowing beluga is a good move,” he said. “There is no reason not to have a quota for beluga. It will cut down on the black market. I only hope these countries will be careful about the catch. Maybe now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife will reconsider its position considering the amount of black market beluga there was last year.”

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Re: U.N. Lifts Ban on Beluga Caviar, mods continue to allow my make believe life.

 

Hey mister culture turn down the Hit device and listen up, this will make you very cool to your euro friends..........................Caviar and Champagne are terms for sex acts in Germany that fall under the Scat territory.

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Re: U.N. Lifts Ban on Beluga Caviar, mods continue to allow my make believe life.

 

i love how gliko always has to feel the need to talk shit. Always.

 

I don't even say shit to you, ever.

 

I guess talking shit about some random girl on 12oz makes you feel like a big man.

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