“The venerable and majestically odd sturgeon family is disappearing, and the paddlefish is poised to follow it,” says Nijhuis. The fish grow slowly so it is easy to quickly over-fish them. There is a nascent industry in farming white sturgeon for caviar in California and the the Pacific Northwest. There is a possibility of harvesting the eggs without killing the fish. “Whatever it’s source, the lure of caviar is undeniable – and enduring,” says the story online at Medium and produced in partnership with the Food and Environment Reporting Network. There is a sidebar at FERN on sustainable paddlefish roe.