双语有声阅读:Caspian Crisis Cuts Caviar Catch 里海危机

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Caspian Crisis Cuts Caviar Catch 里海危机致使鱼子酱产量大幅降低

Russian caviar stocks are dwindling¹ fast

俄国鱼子酱库存迅猛减少

Gourmets³ are going to have to pay a lot more for their black caviar this year if they can find it at all.

Russia says it may have to stop exporting the expensive delicacy⁴ for the first time in a century.

Officials blame bad weather, and pollution for the dwindling numbers of sturgeon - the fish whose eggs produce one of the world's priciest gourmet² treats.

Russian fishermen on the Volga River catch around 20% of the world's black caviar, tearing it out of the bellies⁵ of giant sturgeon, a species as old as the dinosaurs⁶.

But this year, fewer fish are coming into the Volga delta⁷ from the Caspian Sea to spawn⁸.

美食家们今年将不得不为黑鱼子酱花更多的钱－－如果他们能找到的话。

俄国说它在本世纪以来可能第一次停止出口这种昂贵的美味。

俄国官员们抱怨说恶劣的天气、污染是鲟鱼数量减少的原因－－它的卵是世界上最昂贵的美味之一。

俄国伏尔加河上的鱼民们提供世界上百分之二十的黑鱼子酱，他们从鲟鱼这种象恐龙一样古老的鱼种的肚子里将鱼子挤出。

但今年，从里海来伏尔加河产卵的鱼群数量减少了