Only 12 tonnes of illegal cavier seizures in 5 years

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Europe, environmental goods |

The Independent reported that ” EU countries imported 591 tonnes of caviar in 2006, but seizures of illegal caviar between 2000 and 2005 totaled just 12 tonnes.”

Source: Martin Hickman, ” British restaurants using black market caviar,” The Independent, July 26, 2007.

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