On this Sunday morning a huge amount of caviar covered Aniva bay, with some three kilometers of its coastline immersed in the delicious delicacy.
No, these are not the very expensive sturgeon eggs that swim in the Caspian Sea (valued at $ 25,000 dollars per kilo), but residents showed incredible enthusiasm for the peculiar phenomenon anyway. Dozens of people approached the coasts armed with shovels and buckets, and they took kilos of the herring eggs scattered on the sand.
As reported to RT Dmitri Lisitsyn, leader of an environmental watchdog organization in the area, the huge quantities of caviar (which at some points reached the 10 and up to 15 centimeters thick) are not quite unusual on the coasts of the island: “It is a normal, ordinary part of the herring life cycle in Sakhalin and Hokkaido, and it’s no tragedy“.
Lisitsyn also clarified that the enthusiasm of the inhabitants stems from the functionality they give to the eggs: if they have culinary properties, their most common use in the area is for the fertilization of orchards.
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