TEHRAN – Iran exports €960,000 of caviar in the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20.

Last year, some 1,000 kilograms of caviar was produced, of which 800 kilograms was exported, the ISNA news agency quoted Hossein Abdolhay, the deputy director of the Iranian Fishery Organization as saying.
He added that the country’s caviar output is projected to triple in the current Iranian calendar year.

Iran can earn an income equal to 12.6 percent of its annual crude oil revenue by producing 100 tons of farmed caviar per year, according to Iran’s International Sturgeon Research Institute Director Mahmoud Bahmani.

The volume of Iran’s annual farmed caviar output is planned to reach 100 tons by 2025, he added.

The most expensive of all caviar, and indeed the world’s most expensive food is ‘Almas’, from the Iranian Beluga fish. One kilogram of this ‘black gold’ is regularly sold for around $34,500. Almas is produced from the eggs of a rare sturgeon between 60-100 years old, which swims in the southern Caspian Sea where there is apparently less pollution.