BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 7. A total of 40,000 tons of fish and related products worth $76.5 million were exported from Iran’s Hormozgan Province in the south of the country, during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21 through November 21, 2022), head of Fisheries Department of Hormozgan Province Sasan Sadeghi said, Trend reports citing Iranian Fisheries Organization’s website.
The official said that the main exported fish products were various fish, shrimps, etc.
He also added that Iran's Hormozgan Province accounts for 25 percent of the country's fish production.
At present, there are 83 fishing farms in the province, Sadeghi noted.
Iran's annual production of fish and related products is about 1.3 million tons.
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