Tehran – Head of Iran’s Fisheries Organization (IFO) has said his organization is planning to produce 1.8 million tons of aquatic products as outlined in the country’s Seventh Development Plan.
 
“If this goal is achieved, the per capita consumption of protein from aquatic sources would increase from 7 to 9 grams, and the overall per capita consumption would reach 17 kilograms,” Hossein Hosseini added.
 
He further highlighted the global demand for aquatic proteins, citing a forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that the world’s population will reach 9.8 billion by 2050.
 
“To meet this demand, it is estimated that aquatic products will need to provide protein for over 7 billion people.”

The IFO head stated that the average per capita consumption of aquatic products in the world is 25 kilograms, while the figure in Iran is about 9 kilograms.

Over the past three years, the efforts of the Aquatics Production and Trade Union of Iran, and the non-governmental sector have led to the addition of markets in countries such as Oman and Malaysia to Iran's target export markets in the field of the fishery.

Enjoying high quality, Iran’s fishery products were sold easily in the export markets, and also some new export destinations welcomed these products in the past three years; as new markets including China, South Korea, and the Eurasian Union nations opened up for Iranian fishery products.