Iran caviar farming booms despite renewed ban in Caspian
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran is expanding its farming for sturgeon and other fishes that lay eggs known as the caviar, the country’s fishery chief says, despite a decision by five littoral states of the Caspian Sea to renew a ban on caviar hunting in the enclosed body of water. Head of Iran Fisheries Organization […]
Annual seafood exports to rise 20% by March, official says
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The value of Iran’s annual seafood exports will reach $600 million by March 2020, indicating a 20-percent growth year-on-year, said the secretary-general of Aquatics’ Production and Trade Union of Iran. Ali-Akbar Khodaei added the figure marks a record in Iran’s annual seafood exports. According to statistics by Iran Fisheries Organization, he […]
Iran’s production of fisheries expected to rise; IFO deputy says
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s production of fisheries will increase up to 15 percent in the year to March 2020, said a deputy head of Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO). Hossein Abdolhay, IFO’s deputy head for aquaculture, added in the year to March 2019, the country produced 1.26 tons of aquatics, IRNA reported. This figure showed […]