Iran exports over 3,300 tons of canned fish in 5 months

A total of 3,347 tons of canned fish worth $2.9 million were
exported from Iran in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar
year (March 21-August 22), registering a 198% rise compared to the same period
last year, the director general of the Agriculture Ministry’s Office of Quality
Improvement, Processing, and Aquatic Market Development said.

The value of Iran’s canned fish export rose 198 percent in
the mentioned period, Abbas Mokhtari said.

He added that the exports also registered a 142 percent rise
in terms of weight.

As the official has announced, the value of the country’s
fishery export has risen 32 percent in the first five months of the present
year, compared to the same period of time in the previous year.

He said that over 83,000 tons of fisheries and aquaculture
products worth $140 million were exported during the mentioned five months,
also registering a 32 percent rise in terms of weight.

Iran's aquaculture industry is on a wave of progress and has
world ranks in the production of some fishery products.

According to the head of the Iran Fisheries Organization
(IFO), the country exported $600 million worth of fishery products in the
previous Iranian calendar year 1401.