Turkey: New Fish Species training for Datça fishermen

The Mediterranean Conservation Society continues its informative meetings about new species that later entered the Turkish seas. A meeting was held with the fishermen in Datça Karaköy in order to convey the impressions of the fishermen on these species and the activities of the association on new fish species. Increasing sea water temperature with the effect of climate change makes the Mediterranean Basin more livable day by day for species belonging to different ecosystems such as the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It has been announced that these new species, which are carried by the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and the ballast waters of the ships, quickly adapt and multiply to the seas of Turkey, which they are unfamiliar with, while posing threats to local fish species and the small-scale fisheries economy. While lionfish, pintail coral, soldier fish, Turkish delight, long-spined sea urchin are among the species that have started to live and spread rapidly on the Turkish ...