Iran to launch major sturgeon farm in Hamedan province

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Iran has plans underway to launch a major project in the town of Malayer, western Iran’s Hamedan province, to produce over 500 tons of sturgeon fish annually, an official said. According to Masoud Norouzi, the head of the Fisheries Department of the Agriculture Organization in Hamedan Province, the project with an annual production capacity of 500 tons of fish will be implemented on a plot of land downstream of the Kalan Dam. He added that the feasibility study for the 500-ton sturgeon fi

Mar 11 202423:49

Iran to launch major sturgeon farm in Hamedan province

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Iran to launch major sturgeon farm in Hamedan province Iran has plans underway to launch a major project in the town of Malayer, western Iran’s Hamedan province, to produce over 500 tons of sturgeon fish annually, an official said. According to Masoud Norouzi, the head of the Fisheries Department of the Agriculture Organization in Hamedan Province, the project with an annual production capacity of 500 tons of fish will be implemented on a plot of land downstream of the Kalan Dam. He adde

Mar 11 202423:39

Iran launches major floating cage fish farming project in Qeshm

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Iranlaunches major floating cage fish farming project in Qeshm Iran'sFisheries Organization has launched a major open sea fish farming project onthe country’s southern Qeshm Island. According toHossein Hosseini, the head of the IFO, the project is a testament to thegovernment's success in promoting aquaculture in the country. Iran hasachieved self-sufficiency in the production and deployment of marine cages, headded. Hosseiniemphasized the importance of fish cage farming, particularly by t

Feb 4 202407:59

Iran Fisheries Organization launches new seafood market in Gilan province

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Iran FisheriesOrganization launches new seafood market in Gilan province The deputy director ofplanning and resource management at Iran’s Fisheries Organization announced thelaunch of a new seafood market in Gilan Province.In an interview with theMehr News Agency, Shahriar Rostami said that Gilan has good potential forseafood production. He noted that the coastal city of Kiashahr, with its accessto the Caspian Sea, provides a good opportunity for the development offisheries and aquaculture

Jan 28 202409:43

Iran plans to increase fresh tuna consumption

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Iran plans to increasefresh tuna consumption The Iranian FisheriesOrganization (IFO) announced on Wednesday that it plans to increase theconsumption of fresh tuna in the country.According to theorganization's head, Hossein Hosseini, Iran produces 282,000 tons of tuna peryear, with the majority of it consumed in the form of canned tuna.He said that theorganization plans to increase the amount of fresh tuna consumed by 10% in thefirst phase of its efforts.Hosseini said that theorganization is work

Jan 28 202409:29

Iran exports over 102,000 tons of fishery products in 9 months

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Iran exports over 102,000 tons of fishery products in 9months Iran exported 102,352 tons of fishery products worth$228.332 million in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year(March 21-December 21, 2023), the spokesman of the International Relations andTrade Development Committee of Iran's House of Industry, Mining and Trade said.According to Ruhollah Latifi, the Islamic Republic exported328 tons of ornamental fish, 14,036 tons of carp, 10,765 tons of trout, 349tons of halva fi

Jan 14 202409:40

Iran trade balance in seafood exports positive

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The value of Bushehr province’s fishery export in the pastIranian calendar year (1401) stood at $605 million, a provincial officialannounced.Mehdi Alamir, the director-general of the province’s FisheryDepartment, addressing the opening ceremony of the second national specializedexhibition of Iranian fisheries industries at the Bushehr InternationalExhibition, said, “This province is one of the leading provinces in the fieldof fishing and aquaculture.”He added that 63,000

Jan 14 202408:56

Iran exports over 2,400 tons of tuna fish in 8 months

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Iran holds the top spot in tuna fishing in the westernIndian Ocean, according to Abbas Mokhtari, the director general of theAgriculture Ministry’s Office of Quality Improvement, Processing, and AquaticMarket Development. He added that, according to the Food and AgricultureOrganization of the United Nations (FAO), Iranian fishermen account for 7% ofglobal tuna fishing.Mokhtari said that 200,000 tons of tuna were caught in Iranin 2023. These were processed into 738 million cans by 136 produc

Jan 14 202408:39

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

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Lorestan province can bea major hub for caviar production, IFO head says The head of Iran FisheryOrganization (IFO) said the country’s western province of Lorestan has thecapacity to turn into a hub for farming sturgeon fish which produce caviar,often referred as the "black gold". “Lorestan has great potential to increase thecountry’s farmed sturgeon production,” Hossein Hosseini said last week breakingthe ground for construction of a sturgeon breeding complex in the pr

Nov 7 202311:14

Iran sets sight on desert aquaculture in northeast

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The head of Iran’s Fishery Organization (IFO) said thecountry has plans underway to develop innovative aquaculture systems and farmfishery products in desert and arid areas. “There is great potential to startcultivation of aquatic products, caviar in particular, in desert areas of Iransuch as Sabzevar, [located in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi],”Hossein Hosseini said last week. He added, “We can produce and export. We are looking forboth vertical and horizo

Nov 1 202312:38