Turkey: The price of horse mackerel dropped to 5 liras

While the price of horse mackerel, which was caught in abundance in the Black Sea, decreased, the citizens started to store the fish by buying them in crates. Fisherman Necmettin Duman said, “When horse mackerel is 5 TL, the customer buys it with a cash register. They take it and put it in their lockers. I guess that fish is not sold anywhere in Turkey for 5 TL at the moment," he said. The price of horse mackerel, which was sold at the counter for 30 liras per kilo, on the first day when the hunting ban in the Black Sea came to an end, decreased to 5 TL with the abundance experienced. The people of Rize started to buy horse mackerel, which became cheaper, in a case and store it in the freezers. In the seas, the hunting season, which started on September 1, continues. Fishermen who sail to the sea with their boats leave their nets in the cool waters and hunt fish. The season, which started with acorn last year, opened with horse mackerel this year. On the first day when the hunting ...