Iran Fishery Cooperative Union has been established in 1989. It has about 408 member cooperative companies as 9 provincial cooperatives in 7 coastal provinces and also 150,000 fisherman members. The annual fishery is about 380,000 tons of different types of fishes from north & south coasts of Iran as well as sea shrimp. Iran fishermen are working in Persian Gulf, Oman sea and also Caspian sea with about 12120 fishery boats.

Member Companies

      The members of Cooperative Union are as the followings :

In south of Iran:

-      Boushehr, Hormozgan , Khoozestan and Sistano Baloochestan  Provinces in south of Iran , each with a provincial fishery cooperative union.

In north of Iran:

-      Gilan and Mazandaran provinces, each with one Parreh (general fishery) provincial cooperative and one Kilka provincial cooperative unions.

- Golestan Province with Parreh (general fishery) companies cooperative union.

Recently, Central Iran Cooperative Union is assigning representatives offices in Fars, Isfahan, Khorasane Razavi, Khorasane Shomali and Golestan provinces.

It is going to assign representatives to all coastal and non-coastal provinces for direct delivering of fish and other sea products till the end of fifth Iran general 5-year plan.