BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 7. The annual farming capacity of fish and fishery products in Iran’s Khuzestan Province, located in the southwest of the country, is expected to increase to 210,000 tons by the end of the next Iranian year (March 20, 2025), said Morteza Souri, director general of the Khuzestan Province Fisheries Department, Trend reports.
Souri stated that two years ago (from March 21, 2021, to March 20, 2022), Iran aimed to boost the fishery output in Khuzestan Province, which produced 136,000 tons of fishery products in that year.
He also said that by March 20, 2025, the province is expected to farm 117,000 tons of warm water fish per year.
One of the notable achievements is that 1,468 tons of sturgeon fish are estimated to be farmed in Khuzestan Province in two years, the director general added.
Iran has set a goal of producing and catching 2.6 million tons of fish and related products in the country by March 20, 2025, as reported.
On average, Iran produces more than 1.25 million tons of fish per year, with about 700,000 tons from fishing and more than 550,000 tons from aquaculture.
Currently, 347 cooperatives are involved in fishing in the north and south of the country. There are 136,000 fishermen working in the north and south of Iran. About 9,500 of them fish in the Caspian Sea in the north of the country, while the rest fish in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south of the country.
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