Iran to Produce 160,000 Tons of Shrimp Annually
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The head of the Iran Fisheries Organization said the country has set a target to produce some 160,000 tons of shrimp per year.
Hossein Hosseini said on Monday that the target will be part of the 7th ‘Five-Year Socioeconomic and Cultural Development Plan’ which will start in 2025.
He also noted that Iran has set a target to reach some 500,000 tons of farmed output from the sea and some 850,000 tons of sea fishing.
The organization’s figures show that Iran farmed some 61,000 tons of shrimp in 950 aquaculture locations in the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2022 to February 22, 2023).