FNA - Iran is posting significant increase in its fisheries and aquaculture output, an official accounted, adding that now the country is the 3rd main provider of caviar. Head of Irans Fisheries Organization Nabiollah Khanmirzayee said on Monday that Iran was currently third in the world in sturgeon farming and processing, adding that production ...

Financial Tribune - Iran's production of farmed sturgeon meat is expected to reach 3,400 tons by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2020), says the head of Iran Fisheries Organization. Nabiollah Khoun-Mirzaei added that farmed caviar production is expected to reach 800 kilograms by the fiscal yearend. According to the official, Iran ...

MNA Iranian caviar brand has been registered in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Abbas Rajaei, Managing Directorof Agricultural Services Specialized Holding Company, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, announced the inscription of Iranian caviar brand in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)....

MNA Iran's farmed caviar reached about 5 tons in production and about 1.2 tons in exports in the current Iranian fiscal year (March 2017-18). It is for more than a decade that commercial harvest of this aquatic species has been banned due to the reduced reserves of caviar fish species in the Caspian Sea, so that the regional countries have been ...

FNA- Iran announced that it has exported its prized caviar to the US after receiving the necessary license from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "We have exported 10kg of natural caviar to the US last year after receiving license from the FDA in the years 2016 and 2017," Managing-Director of Agricultural Services of Specialized Holding Company ...

Al-Monitor l Zahra Alipour: With Iran to its south and Russia to its north and west, the Caspian Sea is not only rich in oil and natural gas reserves, but it is also the worlds primary and largest habitat for the beluga, the most famous of the caviar sturgeons, as well as four other sturgeon species. This ancient fish, often described as a living fossil,...

MNA Head of Iran Fisheries Organization has reported on deployment of Irans first cargo of farmed caviar to American markets. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Head of Iran Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi said caviar was not farmed in previous years saying good measures have been taken recently as 1.5 tons of caviar and over 600 tons of sturgeon ...

TEHRAN- The annual production of caviar in Iran is anticipated to reach three tons in the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20, 2017), according to Hossein-Ali Abdolhai, deputy head of Iran Fisheries Organization. The official said that the mentioned amount, if achieved, equals the figure planned for this year, IRIB news reported. Abdolhai ...

RASHT, Sep. 05 (MNA) Aquaculture deputy of Irans Fisheries Organization has said sturgeon production has surged in recent years, reviving hopes of a better place for Iran among caviar producers worldwide. Rasht hosted on Monday an international conference Prospects of Aquaculture and Caviar Production, organized by Gilan University, Irans Fisheries ...

An introduced or non-indigenous species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. Non-native species can have various effects on the local ecosystem. Introduced species can disturb the ecosystem of an area, Seyyed Jafar Mousavian,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy agriculture minister unveiled plans for exporting seafood, including caviar and shrimp, to the United States and Canada in the current Iranian year (March 2016 March 2017). Hassan Salehi told Tasnim on Friday that there is no obstacle to the export of seafood products to the US. He noted that Iran is aiming ...

Irans exports of caviar, a prized delicacy that can fetch more than $100 an ounce, are set to hit 1.5 tonnes this year, agricultural officials say. So far, 900 kilos of fish eggs, as caviar is, have been exported from the countrys aquafarms amid a ban on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea where the worlds best caviar-bearing fish thrive, Iran Fisheries ...

On the shores of the Caspian Sea, an ambitious project hopes to produce a delicacy that could boost Irans economy as sanctions ease: caviar. Once the worlds biggest exporter of the luxury food, Iran sold more than 40 tons of sturgeon eggs in 2000. Exports plunged to just 1 ton last year due to dwindling fish stocks and trade sanctions which were ...

Iran has opened a sturgeon farm described as the Middle Easts largest on its Caspian coasts to produce high-end caviar -- the most prized luxury delicacy reserved for the rich. The aquafarm in Juybar in Irans northern Mazandaran province will yield 30 tonnes of the other black gold a year on top of 2,000 tonnes of sturgeon meat which is highly valued ...

Caviar is an expensive delicacy traditionally reserved for the rich, harking back to the royal courts of the ancient Persia where it was in common use. While the population of the sturgeon fish which produce caviar is dangerously depleted, the elite hunger for the commodity known as black gold is growing. And Iran, as the producer of the most ...

Iran expects to export 1.5-2.0 tons of caviar produced in its hatcheries this year amid a ban on commercial fishing of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea. The worlds biggest exporter of the delicacy produced 1.2 tons of caviar last year in addition to 600 tons of sturgeon meat, head of Irans Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi told Mehr News Agency. Caviar ...

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TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran has exported 1200 kilograms of caviar of cultivated fish in the Iranian calendar year, (started on March 21, 2015), Deputy Head of Iranian Fisheries Organization Hossein Abdolhai. Iran stands first in the world in terms of cultivating trout in freshwater, he said, adding Iran now is producing 16 percent of trout across the world....

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran would export near five million dollars of caviar in the current Iranian calendar year, (which ends on March 20, 2015), adding that the country has cultivated 2.5 tons of caviar in the period, said Head of Iranian Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi. "Given the price of $2400 per each kilogram of caviar, we will export $4.800.000 ...