KING'S DELICACIES LLP

In their own words

The New LLP will do the following activity: The new LLP will use the “No Kill Caviar” or “Cruelty-free caviar” or “correct caviar” method to produce eggs from Fish. Caviar was once the food of kings and czars — and for a sturgeon, it meant death. But a new technique of massaging the ripe eggs from a female sturgeon — without killing or even cutting the fish open— could make caviar more abundant, more affordable, and more accessible to all. The idea is to turn the caviar farming industry into something more akin to the commercial production of poultry, eggs or milk. The method called Vivace method involves first viewing a sturgeon's eggs by ultrasound. If they are deemed ready, a signaling protein is administered to the sturgeon several days before the egg harvest. This, "induces labor" and releases the eggs from a membranous sack in the belly cavity. At that point, the eggs can be pumped from the belly with gentle massaging. The process can be repeated every 15 months or so throughout a sturgeon's lifetime, which may last decades. The method is considered by some an improvement over so-called "C-section caviar" production, which requires making a small incision in the female fish to access her eggs. The operation allows the producer to harvest the roe without using any chemicals to induce egg-laying. But C-sections subject a sturgeon to the risk of fatal infection and can damage the fish's ovaries, reducing future roe yields. "[The Vivace method] will make caviar production more financially reasonable," "It doesn't make much sense to take a fish that needs seven or eight years to mature and then, when it has its first eggs, kill it." As above, the new LLP will use the above method to produce the eggs from Fish which is unique in itself and not used in India till date.

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