Sajalín, a Russian island in the Sea of Okhotsk, has seen a phenomenon in recent weeks. Tons of caviar washed up along its beaches after a storm. At least three kilometers from the coast were covered with this fish egg.
Dmitry Lisitsyn, head of the Sakhalin Regional Public Environment Organization, reported the event through his social networks on May 14. He has told that the residents of Sakhalin They did not want to waste the caviar and so they load it into cars to take it to their gardens as fertilizer.
“In some places, the layer thickness of caviar reaches 10 and 15 cm,” Lisitsyn explained.
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The official pointed out that it is not something “terrible” or a “tragedy”, but a “normal element of the life cycle of the herring”. Most of these forage fish belong to the Clupeidae family.
At the end of April, in Aniva Bay, the most developed part of the coastal waters of this Sakhalin Island, residents were able to catch these fish with their hands. Herring also came to spawn off the coast of the Korsakovsky district. ⠀
Some called the event a “herring fever”. LScientists claim that there are many fish and that they even appear in the form of waves.
The caviar It is considered one of the most expensive delicacies in the world. There is no other food so valued: the price can range from about 70 euros for 30 grams to 10,000 euros per kilo.
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