One fish brings in pounds 60,000
Iranian fishermen caught a 14ft, 500kg sturgeon with 54kg of high-quality caviar worth pounds 60,000 off the east coast of the Caspian sea last week. Exports of caviar earned Iran nearly pounds 30m in the year ending March 1996.
Reuter - Tehran
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