Since October, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned imports of beluga caviar from countries bordering the Caspian Sea, Shuckman estimates that sales of his caviar are up 35 percent.
Harvested from spoonbill paddlefish caught at Lake Cumberland in Kentucky and processed at Shuckman's Fish Co. and Smokery in Louisville, his caviar costs about $17 (€14.35) per ounce compared to about $200 (€168.87) per ounce for some imported caviar earlier this year, according to a report by the The Courier-Journal.
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