Iran’s share of caviar harvest in the Caspian Sea reached more than 78 tons
Iran’s share in the Caspian Sea caviar harvest was set at 7.78 tons for next year.
Yahya Mohammadzadeh, Deputy Minister and Managing Director of the Fisheries Organization, told reporters: At the meeting held in Baku on December 18 and 19, the share of total caviar harvest from the Caspian Sea increased from 142 tons last year to 1.147 tons next year. , And Iran’s share was set at 53% of the total harvest share.
He described Iran’s high share in the extraction of caviar from the Caspian Sea as a sign of Iran’s efforts to rebuild reserves, preserve existing resources, prevent smuggling and illegal fishing, as well as preserve valuable sturgeon species, adding that in the case of Kilka fish, 110 One thousand tons from the Caspian Sea It was agreed that Iran’s share will be 35 thousand tons next year, although this year we will catch less than 30 thousand tons.
Regarding the project of releasing the sea urchin, he said: The project of this project has made good progress and if the laboratory stages of adaptation of this organism to the Caspian Sea water are positive and the result is positive, the environmental organizations of the Caspian littoral countries will agree to link this project. The cruiser will start in the Caspian Sea.
He considered the smuggling of caviar to be uncontrollable and uncontrollable and added: Due to the long coastline, the only thing that is done by the government is to prevent the illegal fishing, buying and selling and transportation of caviar, which is monopolized by fisheries, and if caviar wants 160 To be sold by CITS member countries, it must have a production certificate from the country of origin.
Regarding fish farming in the aqueduct, Engineer Mohammadzadeh said: Cold-water fish farming such as trout in the aqueduct is highly economical due to the lack of initial costs for the construction of the pool, while the lands irrigated with the water of these aqueducts have high nitrogen fertilizer and need fertilizer. Reduce.
Referring to Iran’s 75-ton caviar harvest quota, he added: This year’s exports amount to 50 tons, which will reach 60 tons by the end of the year. Also, each kilo of caviar in Europe is priced at 630 euros, which is 20% higher than other countries’ caviar prices.
Regarding the country’s aquaculture production, he said: During this year, the country’s aquaculture development credit has been 634 billion rials, and during the current year, more than 60,000 tons of hydrothermal fish have been harvested, which shows a 13% growth compared to 53,000 tons last year.
Also, 15,000 tons of cold-water fish were harvested, which is a 25% increase compared to 12,000 tons last year.
Referring to the problems for the shrimp industry in the past few years and the white spot disease that spread this year, the CEO of Iran Fisheries Company stated: It is predicted that shrimp production in 2002 will be one third of the same period last year due to these problems, but We hope the production will reach more than six thousand tons in the country.
In the end, he referred to the shrimp production indices in Bushehr and said: Shrimp baby production has increased from 12% and feed conversion ratio of 37.0% compared to last year. Also, the net weight of shrimp has increased from 7.11 grams last year to 2.13. Gram and harvest yield have increased from 4.2 tons per hectare to 635.2 tons per hectare. Meanwhile, the average breeding period, which lasted 120 to 130 days last year, has been reduced to 110 to 120 days this year.
Engineer Yahya Mohammadzadeh expressed his satisfaction with the complete transfer of the shrimp sector to the private sector and considered the legal duty of fisheries to be limited to providing facilities, export subsidies, education and extension and research activities.