Ali Bolourchi, president of Tsar Nicoulai, shows part of the sturgeon hatchery on the farm in Wilton, Calif. (Gregory Urquiaga / UC Davis) Ali Bolourchi ’05, M.B.A. ’12, leads a tour of his caviar ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). She has been writing for Game Rant since ...

New protections for white sturgeon may impact farm water supplies and increase costs for local water agencies. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo) California’s effort to protect an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey family is seeking to revive the state’s once-thriving caviar industry through a sustainable sturgeon farm that ...

As the sun rises over the Sacramento Valley, the ranch hands at Tsar Nicoulai prepare for an early morning roundup. Unlike traditional livestock ranches, this farm specializes in sturgeon, producing ...

For the glory of acquiring highly prized sturgeon eggs, countless clashes and crimes have transpired across the globe, from coffin-crammed capers to revisionist religion. Salt-cured sturgeon roe — ...

Often associated with opulence and tsars, caviar are unfertilized eggs harvested from sturgeon. Caviar is versatile: these delightful fish eggs can be served solo, as a canapé or hors d’oeuvres, or as ...

While sturgeon can live longer than a century, the oldest at Sturgeon AquaFarms are about 25 years old. These 400-pounders serve as the farm's broodstock, or the ancestors of all the other fish on the ...