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Turkish fishermen wrap up season with hunting ban…

With the conclusion of the fishing season in the Turkish seas, the annual hunting ban has commenced to ensure wildlife conservation and sustainable resource management. İbrahim Yumaklı In a statement declaring the fishing ban starting from April 15, Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı said that this year’s season witnessed a bountiful catching. The …

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Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan: The number of cages at sea increases, but lake salmon threatens exports!

Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB), said that the number of cages in the seas has soared in the last 5-6 years. Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan Pointing out that especially in the last 5-6 years, the number of cages in the sea has started …

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Gürdoğan: We should be able to process and export salmon as semi-finished products

Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), said that a new sector could be started in salmon. Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan Gürdoğan said, “We send salmon as semi-finished products, that is, in other forms such as fillets. Türkiye should create its own brand and send …

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“At this rate, it seems that salmon exports will overtake hazelnuts”

Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB), stated that salmon export figures compete with hazelnut export figures. “Salmon has become a new alternative product to hazelnut in the Eastern Black Sea Region. Salmon started to compete with hazelnut in terms of income. At this …

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Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan: We have achieved a good momentum in the export of Black Sea salmon

In the exports of Turkish salmon grown in the Black Sea in January and February of this year, a spike of 289 per cent compared to the same period last year, an increase of 70 thousand 614 dollars in foreign currency inflow was achieved, while this figure was recorded as …

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Gürdoğan: We export anchovies as canned instead of sorted

In the January-February period of this year, 577 thousand 463 kilograms of anchovy made exports to 18 countries, Türkiye provided 2 million 119 thousand 896 dollars in foreign currency. Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB), said, “We were sending anchovies as sorted and …

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Türkiye is losing its competitiveness in salmon exports!

The negative effect of foreign currency in exports started to be reflected in the aquaculture sector. It is stated that due to the high production costs in Türkiye, especially Turkish salmon exports slowed down, could not compete in the market and started to move away from the market. Türkiye is …

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Mustafa Altuğ Atalay: Fisheries production reached 1 million tonnes last year

Mustafa Altuğ Atalay, General Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, stated that a record was broken last year in fish farming and hunting products and said, “Last year, nearly 1 million tonnes of fish were obtained. Mustafa Altuğ Atalay “This year we have a …

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Tuncay Sagun: Turkish salmon is stuck in ‘exchange rate’ in exports

Turkish salmon (trout), the production of which has been increasing in Türkiye in recent years, has started to get stuck in the exchange rate in exports. Due to the negative impact of the exchange rate on competitiveness, it also slows down the exports of the aquaculture sector. Tuncay Sagun Türkiye …

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Saffet Kalyoncu: We prepare promotional activities for Turkish tea and Turkish salmon in foreign markets

Press release… Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB) has prepared Promotion Projects in order to further boost the exports of Turkish Tea, which is the green gold of the Eastern Black Sea Region and to promote it in potential markets abroad and to diversify the number of countries for Turkish …

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