Question

Why does caviar have such a high price tag?

Answer 1

If someone wanted to buy your eggs wouldn't you charge them a bundle of money too?? Fish aren't stupid.

Answer 2

Real caviar comes from a fish called sturgeon, which lives and breeds basically in Russia and is very rare, and currently near extinction. Basic supply-demand economics make the price go up.

Answer 3

The real caviar comes from the Caspian Sea. The Sea has not been doing well and neither have the sturgeon. Soviet control did not help. It is one of those foods (?) that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it (like truffles.) I tried it once. It is salty. You aren't missing anything you can't do without.

Answer 4

Because it's fish eggs and it's hard to get I guess.

Answer 5

It starts out in Russia and is disrtibuted to the West. Every time a middleman handles the Caviar it is marked up 30% to 40% so what started out as $100 kilo becomes $3500 Kilo by the time it reaches New York

Answer 6

Sturgeon are all over the place (see above). The problem is there is only a certain time and a certain size that you can keep them if you catch them. This is why caviar is so expensive. We used to catch them in the Delta near Martinez, CA.

Answer 7

EEWWWW!!!!! grosss why do you wanna tlk about poor lil fish??