Ossetra 2009 issue for wild Caspian Caviar production. Farms for breeding sturgeon and caviar are in Iran and Israel; although the religious views of Muslims and Jews do not allow them to eat caviar, as it's not kosher or halal, it doesn't stop these areas from farming fish. A group of companies referred to as Russian Caviar House, exclusively sell and distribute authentic Russian Osetra Caviar due to their affiliation with DIANA Fish Trading, LLC, which manufactures 80% of all legal sturgeon caviar in Russia. On July 17th, Black Caviar Company partnered with Russian Caviar House, following a decade-long halt prohibiting
USS Sterlet (SS-392) to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet. On these cruises, usually of approximately six months duration, she participated in a host of exercises and war game problems and visited most major ports in the Far East, particularly those in Japan, Taiwan, China and in some of the Central Pacific islands. After her return from her final deployment in the summer of 1968, "Sterlet" was found to be unfit for further naval service. Accordingly, she was decommissioned on 30 September 1968, and her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on the following day. She rendered her last service