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Monday, November 05, 2012

Waste Fish Oil Biodiesel Used as Source of Renewable Fuel in Iran
IRAN - A study by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, is looking at the prospect of waste fish oil as a sustainable energy source for biodiesel production in Iran....

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Iranian Shrimp Market Opens to Chinese Exports
IRAN - Despite the sufficient production volume in the country, Chinese shrimps are going to be imported to Iran, reports the Iranian Agriculture News Agency....

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Iran Shrimp Export Ban Lifted
IRAN - The ban on shrimp export to the European Union was lifted through efforts by Agricultural Jihad Minister Mohammadreza Eskandari and the Ministry of Foreign...

Monday, December 10, 2007

Iran to reinitiate EU shrimp export
IRAN - Minister of Agriculture, Mohammad-Reza Eskandari, says the obstacles preventing Iran's shrimp export to EU nations have been removed. ...

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

100,000 tons of prawn will be harvested
IRAN - “Harvesting Prawn from 800 hectares of farms will be started from December 1 with a month of delay,” said Mohammad Bani Ameri, Executive of the Union...

Friday, October 12, 2007

15 Billion Rials of facilities to the cold-water fish growers
IRAN - During the first half of current year 15 Billion Rials of monetary facilities has been paid to the cold-water fish growers of the province Chahar Mahal and...

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Europe Upholds Shrimp Ban
IRAN - The head of Iran’s Fisheries Organisation has said that following political problems created for Iran at the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear...

Monday, September 24, 2007

Shrimp Export Potential High
IRAN - Revenues earned from exporting shrimps are equal to those of petrochemical products....

Monday, September 17, 2007

International Artemia seminar in Tehran
IRAN - International seminar of Artemia will be held in the conferences saloon of Fishery Organisation on 25 September 2007....

Monday, September 10, 2007

Aquaculture ignored in new gasoline share out
IRAN - Najm Beit Chan’an, Iran's Head of Chamber of Trade of Khoramshahr, says that aquatic growers have been ignored in the gasoline apportionment applied in...

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Shrimp Farmers Demand Support
IRAN - Experts are studying a comprehensive plan to support shrimp farmers and exporters who are canvassing for its implementation. ...

Support for shrimp industry
IRAN - Experts are scrutinizing a comprehensive plan to support shrimp farmers and exporters as they are pushing for its implementation....

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Shrimp Farmers in Quandary
IRAN - Managing director of Aquatic Breeders Union has called for the implementation of a directive by agricultural jihad minister urging Rural Cooperative Organisations...

Monday, May 07, 2007

Rice-fish aqua culture improves farm income
IRAN - Rice-Fish aqua culture is practised mainly to improve the income of farmers and to make an essential item available in the diet of rural people in areas where...

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Shrimp Trade Prospects Not Bright
IRAN - The new head of the State Veterinary Organization has warned that the country may be unable to export shrimp in the year to March 2009. ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Shrimp Sent Back From Europe
IRAN - More than 6,000 tons of shrimp bound for EU-member states were sent back to the country due to discrepancy in export documents. ...

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Sea products exports earn Iran approx. $44m
TEHRAN - Fish and other sea products worth around $43.822 million were exported in the first 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2006),...

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Kerman to become one of Iran’s top 10 inland fish producer provinces
TEHRAN - Kerman Province, located in the southeast of Iran, will soon be among the nation’s top ten land-locked fish producer provinces, noted Deputy Agricultural...

Monday, January 15, 2007

Mazandaran Prov. stands 1st in Iranian farm fish production
IRAN - The northern province of Mazandaran accounts for 25% of the country’s farm fish production thus ranking first among Iranian provinces. ...

Friday, December 29, 2006

Two rare fish species on the verge of extinction
IRAN - Two rare species of fish formerly abundant in Iran’s Gamasyab River, flowing from the northern part of the Zagros Mountains, west of Iran, are on the verge...

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Sturgeon Research Institute chosen as NACA center
IRAN - Iran’s International Sturgeon Research Institute has been chosen as the international center for the development of aquaculture and sturgeon in Asia-Pacific...

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Chabahar shrimp production up 40%
IRAN - This year, some 2,500 tons of shrimps have been produced in the southeastern port city of Chabahar, 700 kilometers south of provincial capital Zahedan, up...

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Freshwater prawn farming gains ground in northern Iran
IRAN - Freshwater (Giant River) Prawn farming seems to be turning into a popular seafood business in Iran. ...

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Shrimp exports to Spain to resume soon
IRAN - Iran will soon resume export of shrimps to Spain, director of the country’s veterinary organization stated Wednesday, adding that farm shrimps were not...

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Iranian City Exports 295 Tons Of Shrimps
IRAN - Some 295 tons of shrimps was exported from Chabahar to mark the start of farm shrimp exports from this southeastern port city of Iran. The volume was destined...

Monday, July 24, 2006

Total Shrimp Output for Export
IRAN - Some 95 percent of the country’s shrimp production will be exported by next March, when the total output is expected to reach 5,000 tons, said the head...

Monday, May 15, 2006

Funding Challenges Cripple Shrimp Farmers
IRAN - A senior fishery official said here on Sunday that lack of cooperation from Bank Keshavarzi (agriculture) is chiefly to blame for financial constraints facing...

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Iran's shrimp industry subsidies insufficient
IRAN - A shrimp industry official assessed that subsidies worth 8,000 rials should be allocated for each kilogram of cultured shrimps in the year to March 2006. Speaking...

Monday, December 12, 2005

Monday, November 14, 2005

Per capita shrimp consumption at 30 gr. in Iran
IRAN - Head of the Shrimp Producers Guild's Board of Directors Ali-Akbar Khodaei said that the annual per capita consumption of shrimp in Iran currently stands...

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