Caspian sturgeon stocks will be depleted in another 14 years

Caspian sturgeon stocks will be depleted in another 14 years

The head of the Sturgeon Research Institute warned: If the current trend of illegal sturgeon fishing continues, the sturgeon stocks of the Caspian Sea will reach zero in another 14 years.

Dr. Mohammad Pourkazemi, director of the International Sturgeon Research Institute, told reporters: If the five littoral states do not take effective action in this regard, our hopes for the Caspian Sea will be minimized and we will have to go on. Let’s work farmed fish.

He said: the caviar production quota in 2006 was about 74 tons, of which 44 tons was the Iranian quota. In fact, more than 50% of the total caviar fishing quota of the five Caspian littoral countries is allocated to Iran, and in terms of caviar exports, the highest figure, ie 50% of exports, belongs to Iran.

The head of the International Sturgeon Research Institute said about the results of studies on the composition of sturgeon species: In the working group that was conducted in three provinces, Iranian sturgeon species is the most abundant.

Estimates of the summer of 2005 show that there are 5 million and 900 thousand sturgeons in Iran and in the summer of 2006 there are about 4 million and 800 thousand sturgeons in the sea.

Pourkazemi also said about the share of caviar exports of the Caspian littoral countries in the coming year (2007): the quota of caviar exports of the five Caspian littoral countries for 2007 has been agreed at 91.828 tons, which has increased to 12.95 tons compared to 2006. Is.

According to him, according to the agreed quota, Iran with 43.2 tons, equivalent to 47.1% of the quota, Russia with 24.2 tons, Kazakhstan with 13.27 tons, Azerbaijan with 6.66 tons and Turkmenistan with 4.40 tons of caviar. Respectively, they account for the largest amount of caviar export quota.

Pourkazemi stated that the prescribed amount of sturgeon fishing in the Caspian littoral countries in 2007 was 710.02 tons, of which 42.02 percent (450 tons) was Iran, 26.75 percent was Russia, 17.04 percent was Kazakhstan, and 8.4 The share of Azerbaijan is 5.79% and the share of Turkmenistan is 5.79%.