TEHRAN- As the General Secretary of the Union of Iranian Aquatics Exporters Ali-Akbar Khodaie told IRIB on Saturday, the value of Islamic Republic's exports of aquatic products witnessed a 42 percent increase during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-September 21).

The country exported 39,000 tons of aquatics at the value of $110 million in the six-month period, said.
Iran reportedly plans to export $380 million of fishes by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2017), Head of Fishery Organization Hassan Salehi said in late September.

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