Determining the volume of entrepreneurship opportunities in the fisheries industry

New job opportunities and entrepreneurship in the field of fishery, and considering business economic aspects in Fishery, as well as promotional legal supports, creating entrepreneurship centers, and promoting general culture of entrepreneurship, is a context for entrepreneurship in the field of fisheries and aquaculture.The dominant approach in this research is mixed (qualitative – quantitative), and the information required to conduct the study was collected through interviewing 10 experts in the field of fishery and distributing questionnaires among 85 entrepreneurs. Finally the information was analyzed using SPSS software.The results obtained from findings of this study indicate that entrepreneurial opportunities in fishery industry are attractive. These opportunities include farming of a variety of aquatics, including mollusk , crustaceans (only shrimp is farmed in Iran), warm water fish (only four species are farmed in Iran), different kinds of cold water fish, aquatic plants, aquatic animals such as frog, crocodile and …, new methods of fishing and aquaculture, such as cage culture, combined production of aquatic species, fishing of species with export value from the waters of the South (Lantern fish, Trachurus), the creation of additional aquatics processing industries and aquatics distribution