After becoming the most valuable player in the Caucasian market by reflecting in the wholesale, retail market, and import volumes Georgian Fish and Caviar is working on bringing the brand to the global market with his CTO of 6 months - Leri Chichinadze, a graduate of St. Louis University.
Georgian Fish and Caviar is the first and only company to produce local and clean fish species after the soviet union collapse in Georgia. A determined team made it possible to start from scratch and overcome difficulties, starting from finding the right location to building a farm that meets all the European standards and still modernizes systematically.
“The status of an experimental farm was assigned from the very beginning, which later justified itself.” - Says Malkhaz Shubalidze – the founder of Georgian Fish and Caviar about the 4 hectares, intensive water supply farm in Kobuleti, Black Sea basin. Currently, there are 4 different clean fish species, and the farm produces high-quality red and black caviar.
For the goal of popularizing black caviar, the farm provides all the necessities to make the taste outstanding. For instance: control water quality by using the cleanest water source in Georgia, the river Kintrishi, and surrounding it with a 105-meter monolithic dam that protects agriculture, feeding fish with high-quality foods like Biomar, Skretting, and Coppens. They foresee growth specifics to make sure that the environment for fish is as close to natural as possible. Each process mentioned above makes the company the only one in the caviar field which has HACCP certification in Georgia.
An innovative method of fish milking is complex but important to the farm. Farmers have to move fish from cold water to warm water, so they think it is already time to spawn. After that, they are fed with a hormone derived from cobra brains to help them reproduce naturally. Eventually, the farm does caviar extraction without bringing any damage to the fish and their organs. This approach is also used in the reproduction of the new generations of the almost extinct breed, the Colchis sturgeon. Until now, there has been no research on this topic, so Georgian Fish and Caviar gradually creates a scientific history.
This compounding process could not be done without professionals. For this reason, the company made the development of its farmers a top priority and trained two of its employees in ichthyology to have even more advanced board members in the local market. They are still on track with the professional development and training of their other employees.
Georgian Fish & Caviar is a universal, intensive, 4-hectare farm supplied by the cleanest river in Georgia, Kintrishi. This is a place where different types of fish, including Siberian and Colchic sturgeon, live, and, as customers rate, the most piquant black and red caviar in Georgia is produced here.