Bushehr, Iran’s shrimp production hub

The head of Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO) Hossein
Hosseini said the country’s southern province of Bushehr has turned into Iran’s
shrimp production hub by accounting for around 60% of the country’s total
output.

A total of 61,000 tons of shrimp have been produced in
Bushehr’s fish farms since the beginning of the current Iranian year, Hosseini
said.

He added that the country annually needs 5.5 billion shrimp
larvae per annum, of which 2.7 billion are produced in Tangestan county in
Busher, which is the hub of shrimp larvae production in the country.

Shrimp fishing and farming in Iran is largely concentrated
in three southern provinces of Bushehr, Hormuzgan and Khuzestan on the Persian
Gulf where many people in coastal areas rely on catch as their sole source of
income.

Those provinces have expanded shrimp farming activity in
recent years to increase exports to countries in East Asia and elsewhere while
helping boost living conditions for fishermen in those regions.