Five countries agree to save Caspian caviar fish

Azerbaijan, Baku, Sep. 25/ Trend, R. Zamanov Five Caspian Sea region countries have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding to save the sea's caviar fish. Turkmenistan has prepared the draft of the MoU, the Fars News Agency reported. The MoU follows a 2012 agreement saying that the region's countries agreed not to fish caviar fish for 5 years. Currently, no country is fishing caviar fish in the Caspian Sea. The Iranian Fishery Organization Director Gholamreza Razeqi previously said that the country's caviar output is projected to hit 3 tons in the current Iranian calendar year, the IRNA News Agency reported. He said that some 5 million sturgeon fries were released by the fishery organization in the Caspian Sea in the previous calendar year, which ended March 20.