Ossetra the import of Russian caviar - the partnership enables Black Caviar Company to sell Russian black caviar within the United States. As with other caviars, ossetra is traditionally served on blinis with crème fraiche. Lower-grade varieties of caviar are used as stuffing in many seafood dishes, and some meat dishes. Caviar is often added to salads as well. Ossetra Ossetra (also Oscietra, Osetra, or Asetra) caviar is one of the most prized and expensive types of caviar (eclipsed in price only by Beluga caviar). It is obtained from the Ossetra sturgeon which weighs 50-400 pounds and can live up to
USS Sterlet (SS-392) in reserve on 18 September 1948 and berthed at Mare Island, California. Just under two years later, on 7 August 1950, "Sterlet" was ordered reactivated. She was recommissioned at Mare Island on 26 August 1950 with Lieutenant Commander George W. Kittredge in command. On 25 September, she headed for San Diego where she conducted a month of training. In December, she shifted to Long Beach, California, where she became one of the stars in the motion picture "Submarine Command" with William Holden and William Bendix. "Sterlet" resumed operations along the West Coast early in 1951 and that employment continued until