Princesse d’Isenbourg et Cie, reckons that at least 50 percent of tins of beluga contain eggs from less prestigious sturgeon. “Marketing and a certain amount of snobbery is crucial to the entire caviar industry,” he says. “The more elusive the supply, as is the case with beluga, the higher the kilogram to price ratio.” Beluga commands the highest price for caviar because it can take the female beluga sturgeon 20 years to produce the roe that, once salted and aged, will become caviar.
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