Current Status, Problems, Solution Suggestions and Future Focuses of Aquaculture in Türkiye ...

• Main Author: Orhan, Kılıç
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Llorente; Scophthalmus maximus; Turbot
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10418578; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10418578

In Türkiye, a significant amount of production is carried out by both fishing (sea and freshwater fisheries) and aquaculture. Aquaculture, especially in recent years, offers great potential for sustainable fish production and economic gain. Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) and European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) are popular fish especially in the Mediterranean region (Llorente et al., 2020), and are extensively farmed in Türkiye. Since the 2000s, Türkiye has achieved a great increase in gilt-head sea bream and seabass farming, and has become one of the world leaders in this field. By 2020, Türkiye's total sea bream and sea bass production reached over 200,000 tonnes (FEAP, 2022) As of 2020, a total of 422,837 tonnes of fish were produced by aquaculture in the Mediterranean. Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) accounted for 49.8%, gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata) 44.7%, meagre (Argyrosomus regius) 2.7%, turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) 2.6%, and Solea (Solea senegelansis) 0.2% of production. 49.3% of these fish ...