Caviar to the general.(Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species)(Brief Article)

Part of the world's sturgeon population has been effectively imprisoned by the United Nations body known as the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Attempting to halt the rapidly dwindling supplies of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, CITES has placed an embargo on the export of the fish eggs from Kazakhstan.

The catch of Caspian sturgeon has fallen from around 20,000 tonnes in the late 1970s to 1,000 tonnes today, according to Traffic. Apart from Kazakhstan the …