Fears for future caviar supply blamed on over-fishing

IT’S the height of sturgeon season, when fishermen get a crack at one of the world’s priciest delicacies — caviar.

But Iran’s fishermen are returning to shore lucky to have caught a couple of the threatened and highly-valued fish.

“We hardly make ends meet,” said Hashem Bakhtaei, who makes his living on the landlocked sea shared by Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.