TEHRAN, February 13 - Head of Iran’s Fisheries Organization Hassan Salehi said the country’s fisheries exports surged by 37 percent over the first 9 months of the country’s calendar year (March 21 –December 21).
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - He said Iran produced over a million tons of aquatic animals over the last Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2016 – March 21, 2017).
He said Iran’s fishing flotilla is the largest one in Indian Ocean following Indonesia, adding over 1000 Iranian vessels are fishing in the ocean.