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Iranian caviar veteran sees CITES criticism as misdirected
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Complaints of the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) control in regulating the sales of caviar are misdirected, according to a prominent Iranian industry insider.
Leading British caviar trader Cyrus Tabrizi, the director of London, U.K.-based Caspian Monarque, has called for a tightening of appellation rules for sturgeon, which he claimed are being abused by distributors of Chinese caviar in Europe marketing their wares as Iranian and Russian. Tabrizi told SeafoodSource last month CITES is a “toothless tiger” as a result of “dissonance” between CITES laws and consumer laws in the U.K. and European Union.