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Iran catches most tuna fish in Indian Ocean after Indonesia

Business Materials 22 August 2014 14:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug.22

By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Iran catches the most tuna fish in the Indian Ocean after Indonesia.

Ali Asghar Mojahedi, the deputy director of the Iranian Fishery Organization, said 474,000 tons of fish were caught from the Indian Ocean, half of which was tuna fish, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on August 22.

Nearly 21 percent of the total tuna fish hunting is conducted by Iranian vessels, he added.

Catching 264 tons of tuna fish in the current fiscal year has been planned, he noted.

Sistan-Baluchestan province, bordering the Sea of Oman, accounts for 70 percent of the country's tuna fish hunting, he said.

Iran's Fishery Organization director Hassan Salehi said on March 14 that some 46,000 tons of seafood were exported and 45,000 tons were imported last fiscal year, the most of which was processed into canned food products.

Iran's fiscal year starts on March 21.

Iraq, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy are the main destination markets for Iran's fish. Russia and Ukraine are the new markets for Iran's fish exports.

Iran's annual catch in fishery sector was around 500,000 tons in the previous year.

Iran's total catch stood at 450,000 tons two years ago. The catch off the southern coast totaled 412,000 tons in the mentioned year, while the catch off the northern coast totaled 38,000 tons.

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