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Iran has experienced a 15% increase in caviar exports from Mazandaran province, with a total of 1,029 kg valued at $532,000 since the start of the current Iranian year. The main export destinations were the UK, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, and the UAE. The province also saw a 37% increase in seafood exports until December 2020, but a decrease due to the closure of export terminals. Mazandaran is the hub for farmed seafood production in Iran, with over 3,450 aquaculture farms. The province produced 2,500 tons of sturgeon meat and 10 tons of farmed caviar in the previous year. Due to the declining sturgeon population and the ban on their fishing, Iran has signed an agreement to found the Iran National Caviar Museum in Kiashahr, northern Gilan Province, to promote international collaboration in caviar-related issues.
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EghtesadOnline: A total of 1,029 kg of caviar worth $532,000 have been exported from the northern province of Mazandaran since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020). “The figures indicate a 15% growth compared with the corresponding period of last year. The UK, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia and the UAE were the main export destinations of Iranian caviar during the period,” Hossein Es’haqi, the head of Mazandaran Fisheries Organization, was quoted as saying by IRNA.“Total seafood exports saw a 37% increase in the nine-month period to Dec. 20, 2020, but the closure of export terminals to some destinations during the month ending Jan. 19 resulted in a decline in exports,” he added. The northern Iranian province exported 11,240 tons of different types of seafood worth $35.87 million during the last fiscal year (March 2019-20), registering a 60% and 21% increase in weight and value respectively compared with the year before.The Islamic Republic of Iran ...
Source: Eghtesadonline.com
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