Recent content by VonCrisp

This article is fairly good. The saline composition varies greatly depending on which part of the Caspian you are in but it is pretty much a mix of everything. Fresh water and salty water from the previous connections to Arctic/ Atlantic - Med. Most freshwater in the Caspian flows in from the...

The caviar sort of brought me into the topic of what kind of water is optimal. Indeed the beluga sturgeon which used to be farmed and exported from the Caspian sea has a very specific flavour which cannot be quite replicated with aquaculture farms. I assumed that this is down to the fish and the...

Hi Everyone. Long time reader. Recently I have been looking into the Black Sea, Caspian and Aral Sea because of an interest for trade routes and the production of Russian black caviar which is actually under export limits and used to come from the Caspian Sea. 2/3rds of the black caviar...