Description

Sevruga (Acipenser stellatus) is one of the economic range of caviar, eclipsed in cost only by the Beluga and Osetra varieties. It is harvested from a variety of critically endangered sturgeon fish species, that are known for their small, grey-colored eggs. In eastern Europe, it is harvested from the Sevruga sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus), the Sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus), which are native to the Caspian Sea and the surrounding rivers. Sevruga is the smallest of the caviar-producing sturgeons. It can grow as far as 150 lbs. in weight and 7 feet in length. It is native to the Black, Azov, Caspian and Aegean Sea basins although it has been extirpated throughout most of its range. Because the Stellate sturgeon was once the most common and fastest to reproduce, this made Sevruga caviar the most found of the sturgeon caviars, and the most inexpensive of the three main types of sturgeon caviar – Beluga, Osetra and Sevruga. It’s calculated that about half the caviar production comes from Sevruga. Sevruga caviar eggs are a pearlescent grey, and smaller in size than other sturgeon.