Lorestan province can be
a major hub for caviar production, IFO head says 

The head of Iran Fishery
Organization (IFO) said the country’s western province of Lorestan has the
capacity to turn into a hub for farming sturgeon fish which produce caviar,
often referred as the "black gold".

“Lorestan has great potential to increase the
country’s farmed sturgeon production,” Hossein Hosseini said last week breaking
the ground for construction of a sturgeon breeding complex in the province.

He added, “A fishing town
with a capacity to produce 4,000 tons of caviar is going to be built on this
site. In the first phase, a 800 ton project will be pursued, and in the second,
we will create a value chain in the province.”

The Persian sturgeon is a
species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found in the Caspian Sea and
to a lesser extent the Black Sea and ascends certain rivers to spawn, mainly
the Volga, Kura, Araks, and Ural Rivers.