Iran caviar farming booms amid renewed ban in Caspian: Fishery chief
Iran is expanding its aquaculture for sturgeon and other fishes that lay eggs known as the caviar, the country’s fishery chief says, despite a decision by five littoral states of the Caspian Sea to renew a ban on caviar hunting in the enclosed body of water,.
Head of Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO) said on Wednesday that sturgeon fish farming had been expanded to cover 20 out of 31 provinces of Iran, adding that a total of 128 caviar fish farms were operating across the country
Nabiollah Khunmirzaei said that Iran had produced six tons of aquaculture caviar and 2,800 tons of caviar fish meat in the year ending in March 201.
“We have a serious plan in the IFO for aqua farming of caviar fishes so that we could carry out this activity in all provinces,” said Khunmirzaei, adding, “Nation-wide studies have been conducted on this purpose.”
The official said Iran eyes to reach an output of 100 tons of caviar and 10,000 tons of caviar fish meat by 2025.
The comments came a week after Iran and four other countries sharing the coast along the Caspian decided to renew a five-year ban on caviar hunting until the end of 2020.
The decision came in a summit of fishery chiefs of Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan held in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Khunmirzaei said Iran had called for a longer ban on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian, something he said was opposed by others in the summit.
“The view of the IRI (Iran) is that the ban should continue for more than a year but a single-year ban was agreed because some countries opposed the multi-year ban,” he said, adding that Iran would host a similar meeting next year to decide on the ban.
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