The price of this delicacy over the past two years increased more than 2 times. Annually in the Russian market sold about 1.2 thousand tons of caviar of a pike.

Quotas for the catch of pike in the Astrakhan region (the main area of the fishery), increase every year. So, in 2015, were allowed to catch 5780,4 tons of this fish, in 2016 – 5947,5 tons, and in 2017 – 5969,8 tons.

According to reports, was caught, much less 5120,6 tons in 2015 and 4739,2 tons in 2016. While it is not known how many of the pike caught fishermen.

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