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Iran renews ban on sturgeon fishing

The endangered fish is used to make caviar. Israel also has a strong caviar export industry.
An Iranian Turkman worker packages beluga caviar.

Iran and other states along the Caspian Sea have renewed a ban on the fishing of beluga sturgeon.

Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, who are parties to the Caspian Sea Aquatic Resources Convention, renewed the ban on the commercial fishing of sturgeon, the state-run Press TV reported Wednesday. 

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