Azerbaijan Fish Farm (AFF) was founded in 2017, when it took over the country’s first sturgeon farm, beside the estuary of the Kura River on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. Originally established in 1954, despite its rich history the farm required substantial investment and AFF has spent the last seven years modernising the facilities, in a bid to produce both premium sustainable caviar and help to restore a number of threated local species.