Turkey: 12 million dollar export of non-fish aquaculture products from the Aegean

Seafood

Turkiye

Published Aug 9, 2022

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According to the data compiled from the Aegean Exporters' Associations (EIB), members of the Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters' Association accounted for 953 million dollars of the 1.4 billion dollars export of the Turkish aquaculture sector in 2021. Aegean exporters exported 513 million 707 thousand dollars of fishery products in the first 6 months of 2022. Sea bass, sea bream and trout played the leading role in aquaculture exports, while Russia, Italy, England, Spain and Greece became the biggest export markets.

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Apart from fish, many products such as shrimp, cuttlefish (squid), squid, octopus and sea cucumber, which were extracted from the Aegean Sea, have also reached the cuisines of many countries, especially the USA, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Apart from fish, in the first 6 months of the year, approximately 12 million dollars of fishery products were exported from the Aegean. The United Arab Emirates ranked first with 13 thousand 630 kilograms of black shell mussel exports. While the biggest market in snail exports was France with 39 thousand 680 kilograms, shrimp exports to Greece reached 45 thousand 320 kilograms in the January-June period. "Norway and Denmark don't have diversity. We have surplus" Şahin Çakan, President of İzmir Fishermen's Businessmen's Association, said that red mullet, shrimp and chicken fish extracted by Turkish fishermen within the scope of international trawling opened as of July 15 were exported to Greece to a large ...

Source: Trthaber