Turkey: Anchovy catch under threat

ORDU University (OTU) Fatsa Faculty of Marine Sciences Academic Member Prof. Dr. Mehmet Aydın said that anchovy hunting for use as fish meal and fish oil could lead to the end of anchovy hunted for human consumption. Aydın said, "There is serious fishing pressure on anchovies. If we continue to hunt anchovies in this way in the future, we will definitely not be able to benefit from anchovies. In other words, our stocks are being seriously damaged as human food." After the hunting season that started on September 1, fish stalls in the Black Sea were lively. Fishermen who opened the season with bonito abundance in the Black Sea could not find what they expected in anchovies. The population of anchovies, whose catchable length is below 9 centimeters in the Black Sea, was negatively affected. Anchovy hunting, especially in Georgia and the Abkhazia region, for use as fish meal and fish oil, suppressed the population of anchovies hunted for human consumption. OTU Fatsa Faculty of ...