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Field Document
November 1992
AQUACULTURE SECTOR FACT-FINDING MISSION

Report prepared for
Shilat (Fisheries Department)
Ministry of Jihad-e-Sazandagi

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome, 1992

Contents



TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME

THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN


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CONTENTS

1.   INTRODUCTION

2.   BACKGROUND

2.1   General

2.2   Fisheries Sector

3.   THE AQUACULTURE SUB-SECTOR

3.1   Aquaculture Zoning

3.2   Status of Aquaculture

3.3   The Carp Polyculture Production System

3.4   Hatcheries and Seed Supply

3.5   Feed, Fertilization and Feeding

3.6   Markets and Prices of Carp

3.7   Financial Viability of Carp Farming

3.8   Other Aquaculture Production Systems

3.9   Institutions

3.10   Research Activities

3.11   Aquaculture Policies and Plans

4.   DIAGNOSIS OF THE AQUACULTURE SUB-SECTOR

4.1   Carp Production

4.2   Stocking of Reservoirs

4.3   Institutions

4.4   Research Activities

4.5   Education and Training

4.6   Aquaculture-related Policies and Plans

5.   DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

5.1   Potential

5.2   Constraints

6.   PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND PROPOSED ACTION

6.1   Proposed Strategy

6.2   Required Actions

6.3   Other Related Actions Required

7.   REFERENCES

TABLES

Annex 1   TERMS OF REFERENCE

Annex 2   FIELD REPORT ON FEEDS AND FEEDING PRACTICES

Annex 3   ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF GENETIC PRINCIPLES TO AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Annex 4   OFFICIALS MET