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Global Caviar Market TRAFFIC is a leading non-governmental organisation working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Reproduction of material appearing in this report requires written permission from the publisher. The designations of geographical entities in this publication, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of TRAFFIC or its supporting organisations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Published by: TRAFFIC, Cambridge, United Kingdom. © TRAFFIC 2018. Copyright of material published in this report is vested in TRAFFIC. ISBN no: 978-1-85850-436-0 UK Registered Charity No. 1076722 Suggested citation: Harris, L. and Shiraishi. H. (2018). Understanding the global caviar market. Results of a rapid assessment of trade in sturgeon caviar. TRAFFIC and WWF joint report. Cover image credit: Thomas Hawk/ Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0) Revised 12th September 2018 2 TRAFFIC report: Understanding the global caviar market. UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL CAVIAR MARKET Results of a rapid assessment on trade in sturgeon caviar Lindsey Harris and Hiromi Shiraishi 3 TRAFFIC report: Understanding the global caviar market. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ................................................................................................. 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 7 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 13 BACKGROUND ON INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL STURGEON TRADE ............................ 13 METHODS ............................................................................................................................................ 15 THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL STURGEON TRADE ...................................................... 19 RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................ 22 CITES trade in sturgeon ............................................................................................................... 22 Global Caviar Seizures ............................................................................................................... 30 Rapid Assessments ....................................................................................................................... 32 Russia ........................................................................................................................................... 32 Germany & France.................................................................................................................. 40 China ........................................................................................................................................... 46 USA ............................................................................................................................................... 48 Japan .......................................................................................................................................... 54 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................ 61 RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................................................... 69 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................... 72 ANNEX I: Table & Figures ................................................................................................................ 74 ANNEX II: Summary of media article review in Russia.......................... ............................... 86 ANNEX III: Summary of open source information on caviar seizures from TRAFFIC’s global seizure database ................................................................................................................. 88 4 TRAFFIC report: Understanding the global caviar market. ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS BArtSchV - Federal Regulation for the Protection of Species, Germany BfN - Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany BNatSchG – Federal Nature Conservation Act, Germany CITES – Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora EEU – Eurasian Economic Union ESA – Endangered Species Act, USA EU – European Union EU-TWIX – European Union–Trade in Wildlife Information eXchange METI – Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan NOAA – U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service RDBRF – Red Data Book of the Russian Federation UK – United Kingdom USA – United States of America USFWS – U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service USSR – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics WCO – World Customs Organization 5 TRAFFIC report: Understanding the global caviar market. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank TRAFFIC colleagues, especially Katalin Kecse-Nagy, Louisa Musing, Robin Sawyer, Crawford Allan, Magdalena Norwisz, Ling Xu, Ryoko Nishino, Sabri Zain, Gayle Burgess, Stephanie Pendry, Richard Thomas and Julie Gray for the ongoing support provided and for their reviews. The authors also thank WWF colleagues Beate Striebel-Greiter, Jutta Jahrl, Stéphane Ringuet, Arnulf Köhncke and Colman O’Criodain for their collaboration and input. Special thanks are due to Alexander Moiseev, WWF Russia for conducting the surveys and interviews in the Russian Federation. Thanks also go to the staff from CITES Management and enforcement authorities in the countries where the rapid assessments took place for information provided on legislation and current enforcement measures in place and all those who took part in interviews for the study. WWF Netherlands and WWF DCP are gratefully thanked for their financial support of this study. 6 TRAFFIC report: Understanding the global caviar market. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sturgeon and paddlefish populations have been declining globally due to, among other factors, habitat degradation and overexploitation, including illegal fishing. Of the 27 species of sturgeon and paddlefish, 85% are now on the brink of extinction (WWF, 2017). In response to this and to ensure trade is sustainable, since 1998, all species of sturgeon and paddlefish have been listed on Appendix I or II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) whereby international commercial trade is prohibited or only authorised with the relevant CITES documents granted by the CITES authorities1. Despite the introduction of CITES regulations and the rapid growth of aquaculture production, the high price and rarity of certain sturgeon and paddlefish species as well as a long-term investment to produce caviar from farmed sturgeons makes illegal trade of caviar and poaching of sturgeons and paddlefish attractive. There are several types of illegal trade of caviar and sturgeon products identified through the study, which include: Caviar and sturgeon meat taken from allegedly poached wild stocks are on sale at open air markets, “under the counter”, or through individual contacts or online offers; Caviar labelling is not in compliance with the relevant CITES Resolution (e.g. labelling not containing all required information); Wild sourced caviar from sturgeon species can be deliberately mislabelled as aquaculture derived species to allow laundering through the legal trade; Aquaculture derived products are deliberately declared as wild sourced or different species to sell at a higher price. Falsified or forged CITES documents, or genuine CITES documents issued corruptly, are used to permit exports. The aim of this study was to obtain a better understanding of global caviar markets, specifically: To look for any evidence of illegal trade in caviar and to identify the type of illegality, e.g. non-compliance with labelling, laundering/mis-labelling, modus operandi; To identify geographical hotspots for trade in caviar; To obtain an initial understanding of consumer attitudes towards consumption of caviar to explore what factors drive demand. This study was intended to provide a rapid assessment of caviar trade globally. Therefore, physical market surveys were limited to only one city in each country in order to obtain a snapshot of the situation. Furthermore, it was not possible to collect detailed information concerning fishing regulations and production of each species in the countries reviewed in the scope of this project. The international trade in caviar was reviewed through analysis of CITES trade data for 2010–2015 and analysis of caviar seizure data based on CITES trade data for US seizures between 2010 and 2015 (source code “I”: confiscated or seized specimens) and EU-TWIX2 data between 2010 and 2016, 1 For species listed on Appendix II, CITES documents should only be granted if trade is not detrimental to the survival of species in the wild. 2 European Union–Trade in Wildlife Information eXchange – the system includes a database of CITES seizures in the EU (http://eu-twix.org/). TRAFFIC received
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