Production of 3 tons of tilapia fish this year in Yazd

According to Mehr News Agency, Tilapia fish for the first time in the year to conduct research into the National Salt Water Research Center and studies on the possibility of localization of its breeding conditions took many years. Tilapia fish farming license has been issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Iranian Fisheries Organization in four provinces, including Yazd, and has increased per capita consumption of fish in the province.

Due to its extraordinary properties such as disease resistant, very rapid growth, high density, the possibility of breeding in different breeding conditions and resistant to adverse environmental factors has been highly regarded.

Mohammad Ali Hatamizadeh, head of the Yazd Agriculture Jihad Organization, also said: Tilapia fish as the second largest fish in the world has many economic and economic advantages, so creating tilapia fish towns, pursuing the goals of the programs on the year's agenda. The future is placed.

He added: Fisheries in the province in the field of cultivation of fish cultivation and consumption lead to the production of 1,600 tons of fish such as rainbow trout, ordinary carp, phytophag, amor and alert, ornamental fish, sturgeon and sturgeon Tilapia noted.

According to the official, according to the Iranian Fisheries Organization's mission to increase fish consumption per capita in line with the resistive economy, Tilapia fish is a FAO's proposed option to promote and grow fish in low -water areas with hot climates.

At the end, the head of the Agricultural Jihad said: Providing reform plans for agricultural pools for breeding, creating tilapia fish pilots in the closed circuit system in Bafq, providing new aquaculture methods, introducing tilapia to aquaculture, and providing fish farming infrastructure by granting facilities And more supervision of providing fisheries inputs through the formation of organizations and cooperatives is one of the measures taken to increase the production of tilapia in the province.