To serve, remove the crabs from the marinade, quarter them and if you like, place the flying fish roe on top to garnish.

In Belarus the addition of fish roe and chicken egg is common.

Top the oysters with the sauce and a small dollop of flying fish roe.

Due to their success in the caviar industry, the family was known as the "Kings of fish roe".

Discussing taramosalata, for example, a dish using fish roe, the group's cookbook now offers instructions on making it with a food processor.

Other types of fish roe, like paddlefish and hackleback, must be labeled as such.

And then the fish roe drops into the pond.

Ensuring that everyone has a fair chance at the more special dishes (such as fish roe, lobster, etc.) is a sign of a good host.

These other fish roes are also available intermittently through the year, unlike shad, whose season ends by mid-June.

AS with most things in life, "live and learn" applies to cooking fish roe.