What species of fish do they get Caviar from?

Question by BlueAnt: What species of fish do they get eggs from for Caviar?
Like is it a specific species or is it just from any fish?

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Answer by ‘Taker
The good stuff comes from sturgeon.

But you can get lower quality stuff from many species. I’ve seen flying fish, salmon, white fish; even crab and lobsters used for their eggs.

EDIT- Becca down there– Any sushi place has loads of other types of fish roe.

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Alex says

the roe of sturgeon, esp. the beluga, or other fish…
Although caviar might seem to be something quintessentially Russian, the word caviar is not, the native Russian term being ikra. Caviar first came into English in the 16th century, probably by way of French and Italian, which borrowed it from Turkish havyar. The source of the Turkish word is apparently an Iranian dialectal form related to the Persian word for "egg," khāyah, and this in turn goes back to the same Indo-European root that gives us the English words egg and oval. This rather exotic etymology is appropriate to a substance that is not to everyone's taste, giving rise to Shakespeare's famous phrase, " 'twas caviary to the general," the general public, that is.

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Becca says

the only caviar i've ever had came from sturgeon;
i've never heard of it coming from anywhere else;
and theres a site that confirms it

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the good life says

minnows…but not much

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Scooter says

To be cassified as "caviar" it must come from sturgeon.
The best Caviar is from Russia

Hope this helps

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Ty says

salmon

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