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Professor Dr. Mehmet Aydın from Ordu University stated that anchovy hunts for fish meal and fish oil threaten the anchovy stocks consumed as human food and that it will be difficult to leave anchovies to future generations with this trend.
Ordu University (ODÜ) Fatsa Faculty of Marine Sciences Faculty Member Professor Dr. Mehmet Aydın said that the anchovy catch for use as fish meal and fish oil could bring the end of anchovy hunted as human food. “There is serious hunting pressure on anchovy. If we continue to hunt anchovy in the future in this way, we will definitely not be able to benefit from anchovy. In other words, our stocks are seriously damaged as human food,” Dr. Aydın warned.
As of 1 September, after the hunting season started, the fish stalls in the Black Sea became festive. Fishermen, who opened the season with bonito abundance in the Black Sea, could not find what they hoped for anchovy. The population of anchovy, whose catchable length was below 9 centimetres in the Black Sea, was negatively affected. Especially in Georgia and Abazia region, the anchovy catch for use as fish meal and fish oil suppressed the population of anchovy caught for consumption as human food.
Referring to the importance of consuming anchovy as human food, Dr. Aydın added, “Since the catch of anchovy in these quantities is not supplied to the consumption of the public, it would not be a lie to say that almost the Black Sea people and Turkish people have not been able to consume anchovy for 5-6 years. Therefore, this anchovy, a valuable fish such as anchovy, should be consumed as human food, not in fish flour and fish oil. We definitely have to utilise anchovy as human food. The anchovies that we will catch here this year, that is, the anchovies that will come to the counter that we can consume, were fished there last year, that is, in Georgia and Abazia. Therefore, I do not think that we will catch anchovies this year.”
