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Current Events
U.S. Suspends Imports of Endangered Black Sea Sturgeon. October 28, 2005 . USInfo.state.gov.
Federal Register Notice. March 4, 2005. Special Rule to Control the Trade of Threatened Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso).
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issues special rule to allow trade in threatened beluga sturgeon. March 4, 2005.
Federal Register Notice. October 26, 2004. Interim Rule for the Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso).
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issues an interim rule for threatened beluga sturgeon. October 21, 2004.
Federal Register Notice. April 21, 2004. Final Determination of Threatened Status for the Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso).
Federal Register Notice. June 29, 2004. Special Rule To Control the Trade of Threatened Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso).
CITES 2004 Sturgeon Export Quotas for the Black Sea Range Countries
CITES 2004 Sturgeon Export Quotas for the Caspian Sea Range Countries
Current News Articles
The little 'monster' threatening caviar. The Australian, November 14, 2005.
U.S. ban on caviar, sturgeon imports grows. BusinessWeek, October 28, 2005.
Beluga caviare banned from US menus to help save the sturgeon.Telegraph News, September 29, 2005.
U.S. bans beluga caviar imports in effort to boost conservation. Bloomberg.com, September 29, 2005.
U.S. moving to ban beluga caviar imports. SFGate.com, September 27, 2005.
U.S. lets beluga sturgeon trade continue. Newsday.com, October 21, 2004.
CITES cuts 2004 Caspian caviar quotas. Gourmet News, October 14, 2004.
Caviar Is Coming After All. New York Times, October 13, 2004.
Cut in caviar exports to save the sturgeon 'could boost illegal trade.' Telegraph News, October 9, 2004.
CITES Authorizes Sturgeon Export Quotas for the Black Sea. CITES Press Release, September 7, 2004.
CITES Has Not "Banned" Caviar or "Punished" Producers. CITES Press Release, September 3, 2004.
CITES: there's no caviar ban. Gourmet News, September 2, 2004.
Beluga sturgeon may join threatened-species list. Orlando Sentinel, April 21, 2004.
U.S. caviar producers hope for a ban on beluga. By Doug Simpson, AP. The Ledger, January 29, 2004.
U.S. to Rule on Beluga Caviar. By Florence Fabricant. The New York Times, January 28, 2004.
Documents of Interest
Federal Register Notice. July 2, 2003
Roe to Ruin.  Report published by the campaign "Caviar Emptor - Let the Connoisseur Beware" (The Wildlife Conservation Society, Natural Resources Defense Council and SeaWeb), December 2000
Petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list Beluga in Appendix I of CITES.  By the Wildlife Conservation Society, Natural Resources Defense Council and Seaweb, December 11, 2000.
Sustainable Sturgeon Fisheries in the Caspian Sea -- Will a Trade Ban Contribute to Achieving This Objective?  By the IWMC - World Conservation Trust, July 2001. 
4th International Symposium on Sturgeon Summary Remarks, Oshkosh, WI, July 13, 2001.
CITES Meeting on the Protection and Sustainable Management of Sturgeon Population in the Black Sea Basin, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 23-26, 2001.  Agreed conclusions of the meeting for attention of national CITES authorities and relevant government agencies.
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