Iranian Fisheries Research Organization
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Iranian Fisheries Research Organization Details
Fisheries research and applied studies of the I.R. of Iran in territorial waters of north, south and inland waters, goes back to 100 years ago with establishing the Iran Ichthyology Laboratory in Bandar Anzali city, Guilanprovince in 1918. These activities were further expanded after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1978. The history of Fisheries Research in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea returned back to 1936 with fish species identification of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea by Danish ichthyologists and then the stock assessment of marine resources were carried out as FAO-regional project. In 1966, the Technical-Research Institute of Marine Fisheries was established in south of Iran and at last the first research center was established in Bushehr. Afterwards in 2003, following changes in the organizational set up and approval of the Higher Education Board, the IFRO was affiliated to the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) of the Jihad-e-Agriculture Ministry. This institution was approved by the Management and Planning Organization in 2005.
