Caspy Caviar
Unknown.
Importer/distributor; farms not disclosed
Quality assessment
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. Caspy Caviar is a caviar brand/importer selling farmed sturgeon roe (Osetra, Siberian, Amur). Its own copy says the sturgeon are 'responsibly farmed in conditions mimicking their natural environment' and that product is 'farmed and imported' — but NO farm, NO country of origin, NO aquaculture certification and NO CITES permit reference was located in any source. Caviar is a CITES Appendix-listed trade requiring permits and species labelling; a supplier that does not disclose farm and origin cannot be assessed. Unknown, not solid.
- Scale
- Unknown.
- Feed & inputs
- Unknown.
- Animal welfare
- Unknown.
- Environmental
- Farmed rather than wild-caught is a positive for wild sturgeon populations, but unverified.
- Transparency
- LOW — the single most opaque supplier in the graph. No origin, no certification, no registry entry located.
Caveats
SPECIES-NAME TRAP already flagged in the source signal: PALATE's menu names 'Kaluga/Osetra', which are SPECIES names, not origins. Kaluga (Huso dauricus) and its hybrids are farmed mainly in China; Osetra (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) is farmed across several countries. Naming the species tells a diner nothing about the farm. Ask the venue for the CITES code on the tin — it encodes species, source (C/F/W), country of origin and year, and it is the one genuinely verifiable caviar credential.
Brooklyn, NY-based caviar purveyor selling Osetra, Kaluga, Kaluga Gold, and Siberian sturgeon caviar sourced from farms described on its site only as 'our finest farms,' without a named aquaculture operation or country of origin.
Products
Osetra caviarSiberian sturgeon caviarAmur/Kaluga caviar
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- caspycaviar.com ↗
Company's own account of sourcing; farmed sturgeon; no farm or country named
- caspycaviar.com ↗
Product range by species; 'farmed and imported' language