Using native species to raise fish in cages

The head of the country's Fisheries Research Institute
announced the studies of fisheries researchers in achieving the biotechnology
of native fish species suitable for cage breeding.

Dr. Mahmoud Bahmani, noting that the fish farming in cages
is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Jihad-Agriculture, told: Extensive
studies have been conducted to obtain the biotechnology of native fish species
suitable for this purpose at the National Fisheries Research Institute for cage
farming in the south, as well as sturgeon and Caspian Sea salmon in the north
of the country.

He believes that in Iran, with the help of the Iranian
Fisheries Organization, and based on pilot experiments which were implemented
on a commercial scale in the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, Bushehr, Hormozgan
and Khuzestan, and based on the statistics of the Fisheries Organization of
Iran, the amount of fish production in fish farming cages in 2018 has reached
more than 14 thousand tons. The head of the country's Fisheries Research
Institute of Iran stated that: the existence of fertile areas with suitable
depth for aquaculture in cages, existence of indigenous species in all coastal
waters of the south and north of Iran, as well as existence of environmental
conditions and appropriate ecological facilities in the territorial coasts of
Iran, possibility to use new systems of fish breeding in cages, and the
existence of shelter areas such as Qeshm and Kish Islands as suitable places
for the construction of fish farms in the cage, make our plan of using native
species to raise fish in cages feasible and workable.

Source of the news: Public relations of the Ministry of
Jihad-Agriculture

Translated by: F.KH