[Lee Stewart]

Beluga caviar

While other varieties of caviar are legal, in 2005, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service banned importing beluga caviar and other beluga products because of the critically endangered status of the beluga sturgeon in the Caspian and Black Seas. The United Nations lifted its ban on exporting beluga caviar in 2007 after the Caspian-bordering countries of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan agreed on fishing quotas, but the U.S. ban remains in place.