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Seabass, seabream, and trout are the main products from the Turkish aquaculture sector. Here, at the Camli processing plant, fish are graded on arrival from the cages.
Fisheries and aquaculture in Turkey
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The Turkish capture fisheries and aquaculture sectors moved in opposite directions in 2012. While farmed fish production increased for the tenth year in a row, that from fisheries declined. Both sectors are important for the jobs they generate in coastal areas as well as the nutritional benefits fish provides the local population.
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bout 38 million people, or a little over half of Turkey’s population of approximately 75 million, is settled on the coasts. Of the country’s total coastline of 8,333 km, 42 borders the Aegean, 21 the Mediterranean, 20 the Black Sea, and 17 the Sea of Marmara. The Marmara coastline compensates for its relatively small size by hosting Istanbul, a vast and dynamic city with a population of some 14 million. This gives the coastline of Marmara a disproportionate weight, when measuring the population inhabiting the different coasts. Thus, of the total coastal population 52 live on the coast of Marmara, while the Aegean, Black Sea, www.eurofishmagazine.com
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and Mediterranean coasts have 15, 13 and 19 respectively.
Black Sea small pelagics used mainly for fishmeal and fish oil Economic activity in the coastal regions is primarily in the fields of tourism, shipping, shipbuilding, and fishing. Capture fisheries in Turkey employed some 38,000 people and amounted to about 396,000 tonnes in 2012 from all the seas surrounding the country, the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas, and the Sea of Marmara. The fleet consists of 14,300 vessels greater than 5 m of which 11,800 vessels are less than 10 m. Nearly 5,000 vessels
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