Irish caviar could soon be on the menu at your local restaurant.

Goatsbridge Trout Farm, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, has won approval with Russian buyers for their latest product — Ireland’s first trout caviar.

EARMARKED recipients for €1.75 million in capital grants for seafood processing and aquaculture projects have said that being given six weeks in which to order, purchase and install new equipment is too tight a timeframe.