Annual Seafood Exports Top $550m

A total of 166,000 tons of seafood worth $554 million were exported from Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2021-22), registering a 19% and 14% rise compared with the year before, according to the head of Iran Fisheries Organization.
“About 700,000 tons of seafood were harvested from the sea and more than 610,000 tons were farmed in fish farms across the country,” Hossein Hosseini was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
The official said the government plans to increase seafood harvest and farming to 1.06 million tons and 1.5 million tons respectively in the next three years.
“Our production of sturgeon meat stood at 3,500 tons and caviar at 16 tons last year. We intend to raise the two figures to 20,000 tons and 100 tons respectively by the end of the fiscal 2025-26,” he added.