Pure beluga caviar, a banned U.S. import, is a rare dining experience unless you’re a member of the international jet set.

Or a South Florida resident.

Beluga sturgeon aren’t much to look at, but Miami’s Mark Zaslavsky has carried on a decades-long affair with these critically endangered fish, pampering them for years in exchange for caviar made from their eggs.

The owner of Marky’s Caviar Lounge at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Zaslavsky is the only source in the United States for pure beluga caviar.

The caviar comes from long-gestating beluga on a sturgeon farm he co-founded near the Florida-Alabama border shortly before a 2005 U.S. ban on imports of caviar from the fish native to the Caspian Sea. These fish can take 10 to 15 years to produce eggs, and the first harvest from his beluga arrived in June.