ARMENIAN FISH BREEDERS HAVE FAILED TO SEE THE EXPORT VALUE OF WHITEFISH

ArmInfo
2010-01-21 18:12:00

ArmInfo. Armenian fish breeders have failed to see the export value
of whitefish, says Chairman of the Union of Fish Breeders of Armenia
Arkady Gevorgyan.

Today, whitefish could be sold on foreign markets for $5 per kg. "We
are losing an export potential we have been creating for decades. In
the past we produced 8,000 tons of whitefish a year, today, we may
lose this resource," says Gevorgyan. Formerly, fishers were prohibited
catching whitefish during maturation period, today, they are not.

In 2009 Director of the Hydroecology and Ichtyology Institute of the
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Boris Gabriyelyan said that,
today, there are just 170 tons of whitefish in Lake Sevan against as
many as 30,000 tons in the 1980s.