"The higher the caviar, the more round and full the particles are, with a clear and transparent color, and even a slightly golden luster. Therefore, people are used to comparing caviar to "black gold", but now..." Tang Tianyou smiled when he heard this, "This statement has turned into a joke about the expensive price of this delicious food."

expensive?

Zhao Feng deeply agreed that if it weren't for entertaining Tang Tianyou, he wouldn't have specially brought out such an expensive dish. You know, when he heard the price of caviar, even though he was a rich young man, he had a golden key in his arms when he was born, and he spent a lot of money, which was shocked a lot.

"Caviar is delicious, that's well-known." Tang Tianyou said, "Of course... such delicious food will be loved and sought after by people."

"Even the endless huge sea cannot resist the greed that humans can never satisfy. Therefore, the raw material for caviar, sturgeon, has been declining in its original huge number for centuries."

Zhao Feng nodded thoughtfully.

"What's more serious is that sturgeons grow slowly. It takes about 18 to 20 years to start from a juvenile fish to a large enough body to be able to mature and lay eggs."

Tang Tianyou sighed, "With such a long process of growth and pregnancy, it is not easy to live well in the Caspian Sea where the situation of excessive arrests is becoming increasingly serious, not to mention that there must be no mistakes in these years, and it really depends on the accumulation of virtue of the ancestors."

"So, now there are still many sturgeons on the earth, and only the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Gironde River in France."

After hearing this, Zhao Feng asked: "Wild sturgeons have been caught, don't they know how to raise them? Since the market for caviar is so big, it must be profitable."

"This situation naturally happens." Tang Tianyou said, "After the news that the wild sturgeon population in the Caspian Sea has been exposed in the global media, there are more gourmets who want to taste the delicious caviar before sturgeons are extinct, and science has made great progress in this situation."

"So, sturgeon breeding technology began to flourish. The focus of the breeding development of the former Soviet Union in the early days was on the cultivation and release of sturgeon juvenile fish in the Caspian Sea. Now, the stupid things that can be used to catch fish for others can no longer be done, so the focus was shifted to raising adult fish that can produce caviar."

"But sturgeons are not easy to handle. If I remember correctly, sturgeons of average grade can take seven to nine years to reach maturity. If you want to produce caviar of beluga, you have to keep them for 20 to 60 years."

"Haha... do you think you really want to, or have the capital to raise a fish like this? It's not like throwing brandy or whiskey there for 30 years. You have to feed it every day and worry about it getting sick. Only raising your own children is like this. Therefore, there is still no good way to solve the problem at present, because of the two major problems of finance and technology."

Zhao Feng nodded. He knew the psychology of these sturgeon merchants who raised sturgeons very well. It is common sense in the world that merchants pursue profits, but technology cannot achieve it. No matter how big the profit is, they can only worry about it.

"It is precisely because of this situation that the number of wild sturgeons has dropped sharply." Tang Tianyou said, "In 1985, the Soviet Union produced more than 650 metric tons of caviar, and Iran could produce 350 metric tons."

"But in 1997, Russia's official statistics on caviar production have dropped to 250 metric tons, while Iran has only 120 metric tons. The abnormal climatic conditions in the past two years have further reduced the production of caviar, and the output may have dropped to only 200 metric tons, of which 120 metric tons are from Russia."

"According to the authoritative food interchain Swiss caviar House, the current demand for caviar in the world should be around 350 metric tons, while the production volume is only 200 metric tons."

"The more things that are in short supply, the more people are sought after." Zhao Feng sighed, "But if you continue to catch them like this, will the sturgeon be extinct? Will there be no response measures?"

"It was originally there." Tang Tianyou smiled, "but due to the collapse of the former Soviet regime, the production and fishing system of sturgeon caviar, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Soviet government in Caspians, also collapsed."

"And what we guessed next is what will happen to these sturgeons with a retail price of caviar worth $3,000 per kilogram."

"In the past, there were only two countries that caught sturgeons in the Caspian Sea - the former Soviet Union and Iran. Now they are divided into five, namely Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran."

"So the current situation is that except for Iran, there are almost no legal restrictions in other countries. A group of thieves illegally catch sturgeons. Anyway, no one cares if you catch them. Otherwise, I will send red envelopes and make money. In the end, it will become a national movement that everyone catches together."

"Three thousand US dollars per kilogram?" Zhao Feng didn't listen carefully to anything else, but only heard such a sensational number.

"Yes." Tang Tianyou nodded, "I said before that caviar is known as "black gold". Among them, caviar produced from the white sturgeon is sold for more than US$830 per kilogram in the Moscow market, while in London, England, it can even be sold for a terrifying price of more than US$5,000 per kilogram."

"Even... some fully mature white whale sturgeons are about sixty years old and can be more than 4 meters long and weigh nearly 1 metric tons. There is no need to mention the preciousness and expensiveness of caviar produced by this grade."

"That is to say..." Tang Tianyou looked at the caviar in front of him with a strange expression, "The plate of caviar we just ate was equivalent to eating the salary of an ordinary family for several months."

So, if a friend or relative in front of you invites you to eat caviar instead of enjoying it alone, then he must be in front of you, the kind that is undoubtedly.

"Mr. Tang, it's really my blessing to make me eat such delicious food." Zhao Feng sighed.

"Thank you for my blessing?" Tang Tianyou looked at Zhao Feng in confusion.

"Yes." Zhao Feng smiled, "I forgot to tell you something. Actually, this breakfast was not made by me, but by my father, who specially ordered the chef to make it for you."

Some people may be very surprised that Zhao Feng was born in such a wealthy family. Zhao's jewelry is famous nationwide, with hundreds of chain stores. The funds it has been handed over are calculated on a billion yuan. Every piece of precious jewelry in the company is impossible to buy even if ordinary people spend all their money.

Eating some caviar is indeed a very big deal for ordinary people, but shouldn't it be a breeze for a rich man of this level? Is there anything worth making a fuss about?

In fact, there is a reason for this.
Chapter completed!