» Its history

 

Agroittica Lombarda, a leading company in italian aquaculture, is the producer of the exquisite Calvisius, Original Caviar Malossol.
It was founded in the mid-1970s and concentrated on eel breeding which was made possible thanks to the exploitation of the heat coming from a near-by steel-plant.
However it was during the early 1980s that Agroittica Lombarda achieved its first aim by means of a innovative project: the rearing of the White Sturgeon, an extremely valuable warm water fish.
Agroittica in collaboration with Davis University in California, began importing White Sturgeon larvae from the USA focussing on the breeding of this species. In 1996, after having reached a high level of specialization in the reproduction of the species, it stopped sturgeon larvae importation from the USA. Since then the company has annually reproduced a great number of fries according to its development programmes.

Agroittica is at present the only professional company in Europe rearing White Sturgeon thus leading the world market in farmed caviar production.
Agroittica Lombarda is also one of the foremost national companies as regards the production of smoked fish specialties. In fact it purchases salmon, swordfish, trout and tuna as raw material so that it can be smoked and packed ready for modern distribution and high quality catering.

» The quality

The quality it has attained in every single detail, thanks to its long experience in the aquaculture field and its use of technology and innovations, is certainly the hallmark of Agroittica Lombarda.
The most important aspect of its production is quality control of every batch reached thanks to the absolute pureness of the water (taken from underground sources and therefore unpolluted), the choice of highly specialized fish feed free from GM substances and meat meals, careful selection of the reproduction stock in order to improve the species and meticulous sanitary checks on the finished products.
Indeed the perfect combination of technological innovations and ancient knowledge of the craft has met the favour of high quality catering and modern distribution also thanks to service, efficiency and the capacity to flexibly meet market requirements.