Armenia currently has 250 fish farms with the total water surface area of more than 3.5 thousand hectares, agriculture minister Sergo Karapetyan said when opening a three-day international seminar in Yerevan on fish farming, saying also that fish production saw a notable increase in recent years.

According to him, in 2014 local fisheries produced a total of 13,000 metric tons of fish worth 28.7 billion drams, an increase of 24.6% from the previous year.

‘Fish production in our country has actually doubled from 2011 to 2014. Last year Armenian fish farms exported 2,700 tons of fish, up from 1,600 tons exported in 2011,’ the minister said.

The minister said also there is a medium-term government-designed project that envisages increasing production of high-quality trout to 50,000 tons a year. It also calls for creation of relating processing facilities.

The seminar is organized for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe interested in international and regional trade in fish and fishery products, reliable sources of livelihood and food security.

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