Iran: Mazandaran’s caviar, sturgeon meat export rises 15%

TEHRAN- The export of caviar and sturgeon meat from Iran’s northern Mazandaran province has increased 15 percent in the current Iranian calendar year (began on March 20, 2020), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, according to a provincial official.Hassan Es’haqi, the director-general of the province’s fisheries department, announced that 1,029 kilograms of the mentioned products worth $532,000 has been exported from Mazandaran since the year start.The official named Britain, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the main export destinations of the province’s caviar.In early October 2020, the deputy head of the Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO) had said that Iran is anticipated to experience a surge in the annual production of sturgeon meat in the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20).Hossein Abdolhay put the country’s sturgeon meat output at 2,500 tons in the past year.Iranian Agriculture Minister Kazem Khavazi has stated that ...