From 2005 to 2023, the Caspian Sea's water level dropped by 185 centimeters, resulting in a loss of 31,000 square kilometers of water area.

The world's largest lake is so vast that it's four times larger than its closest competitor and is often dubbed as a fully-fledged sea.

Since 2006, the sea has become almost two meters shallower, and by the end of the century, it is predicted to fall by another 8–18 meters.

Three Kazakh fisheries officials have driven down from the Aral Sea in a big Soviet-era truck ... Soviets had been successfully fertilizing Caspian sturgeon species since the 1860s.

In 2007, Russia banned the harvest and sale of black caviar which extended the 2002 ban on commercial sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea sturgeon, caught in five coastal states ...

The record for the largest beluga sturgeon ever caught is 23.6 feet long and 3,463 pounds. This is larger than some whales—the beluga whale included. However, that record was set in 1827.

Caviar is a delicacy made from the salted eggs of sturgeon fish. Traditionally sourced from Russia’s Caspian Sea, it gained luxury status in the 17th century after Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich I ...