Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran saw an increase in seafood exports in the past year, with a value of 539 million US dollars and a weight of 146,000 tons from July 2019 to mid-February 2020. This marks an 11 million US dollar increase in value and 3,000 tons increase in weight compared to the previous year. The country also produced over 1.3 million tons of seafood. The UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia are the main markets for Iranian seafood, with shrimp and caviar being the main exports to Spain, Belgium, and Germany.