Media Release - MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA AQUACULTURE 2015 Tehran, Iran – 14-16 December, 2015
MEDIA RELEASE
MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA AQUACULTURE 2015
Tehran, Iran – 14-16 December, 2015
This
First Middle East and Central Asia Aquaculture Conference with the theme:
’Tapping New Markets in Aquaculture’ includes several events. Asian Pacific
Aquaculture 2015 is the annual meeting of the Asian Pacific Chapter of the
World Aquaculture Society. The Middle
East Aquaculture forum is the second of its kind in the region and focuses on
industry presentations. The International Shrimp Symposium 2015 will be part of
this event. Besides, the conference with focus on Marine Fish, Shrimp,
Sturgeon, Trout and Offshore mariculture, MECAA15 also includes an International
Aquaculture Exhibition. MECAA15 is hosted by the Iranian Fisheries Research
Institute.
This
event is expecting over 500 Iranian and International Aquaculture Experts.
Time
to register now:
>www.meaf.ae.
Workshop:
There
will be 4 workshop during this event. The first day Badinotti is organizing a
Cage Culture Workshop, while our Shrimp experts will organize a Shrimp culture
Workshop. The Trout and Sturgeon workshop will be organized on December 15th.
Exhibition:
There
are still a few booths available. Please contact mario@marevent.com.
December
14-16, 2015. More info on
www.was.org and >www.meaf.ae.
Thank
you and see you in Tehran, The MECAA15 Team
Status of Aquaculture in Iran
Homayoun Hosseinzadeh Sahafi
Iranian Fisheries Science
Research Institute, Agricultural Research and Education Organization (AREZO)
,Tehran, Iran
E.mail:h_hosseinzadeh@ifro.ir
With
reference to precedence of 2000 years of fish culture in the world, this
activity has been started in Iran with Sturgeon breeding and rainbow trout in
1922 and 1959, respectively.
The
initial efforts, in the 1970‘s , were directed towards development of hatchery
techniques for Fingerling production of the valuable Caspian Sea species , such
as Sturgeon and Rutilus (Rutilus
frisi
kutum ).
This approach was also adopted for other indigenous species,
rainbow trout and chinese carp, the latter of which have become the major
speacies for freshwater aquaculture.The contribution of aquaculture to fishery
production has been progressively increased the production of 3219 t. in 1978
(1% of total fishery production) to 65000 tones by the 1996 (13 % of total
Fishery production).Fish production thought aquaculture reached 325000 tons in
2013.
Development
of aquaculture has since been expanded to cover most of the 25 provinces in the
country, with coastal aquaculture being introduced recently for the production
of highly esteemed marine products. In order to increase the shrimp Population
in the Persian Gulf, Aquaculture department started a joint project with UNDP
in Hormozgan province, which established a pilot hatchery for shrimp production
in 1987 resulted in the production was about 1240 million PL and 13000 tons of
shrimp in 2013. Warm water fish ponds [2 ha < farm (area) ha < 100 ha.]
are found all over the country, but Majority of them are located in Gilan and
Mazandaran provinces in the north and Khouzestan Province in the south Inland
water recourse (0.5 million from 5 million hectares) including reservoirs,
Lagoon, natural water body and dam lakes were subjected to releasing fish
finger lings. Cold water farms are distributed in the eight provinces of west Azerbaijan.
Fars, Tehran, Lorestan Mazandaran, Zanjan, Kohkiloyeh-Boir Ahmad and
Chaharmahal Bakhtiari. Trout production has started in 1959 and total
production was about 23140 ton in 2003 and it’s increased Up to 14400 tons in
2013.
In order
to enhance the Caspian Sea fisheries, inland water bodies and aquaculture
activities artificial breeding of various fish species was seriously
considered. The number of fingerling production increased in 2003 and 2013 with
507 million and 1038.5 million respectively. It seems that the production of
aquaculture will reach to 400000 mt/year at the end of 5th five years
development plan (i.e.2015). In this regard, according to the Statistic
Fisheries Organization, improving of Iranian fisheries’s achievement in last
decade is showen in tabale1. In order to achieve sustainability in aquaculture
and rural development, the government has catered for the provisions of their
activities, such as: credits, infrastructure, training and technical assistance
moreover fisheries of Iran have high readiness for cooperation with the
countries, international and regional agencies, experienced in these fields.
Table1: Number of fish fingerling releasing
(typical species) over the 2003 and 2013 in the Iranian reach of the Caspian
Sea
fish fingerlings
|
2003
|
2013
|
Kutum
|
155000000
|
200957000
|
Sturgeon
|
20000000
|
2198000
|
Caspian brown trout
|
325000
|
850000
|
Total releasing to stock enhancement
|
219255000
|
279336000
|
per capita consumption
of fish
|
4.1kg
|
8.5kg
|