Turkey: Fisheries exports run to 2 billion dollars
Seafood
Turkiye
Published Sep 12, 2022
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Muğla and İzmir realize 62 percent of the annual 1.4 billion dollars of aquaculture exports of the aquaculture sector, which is among the star sectors of Turkey's exports. Explaining that they contributed 953 million dollars to 1.4 billion dollars of fisheries exports in 2021 as Aegean Region, Turkish Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters' Associations Sector Board Chairman Sinan Kızıltan continued his words as follows: “We carry out 68 percent of Turkey's aquaculture exports from our Aegean Region. Fisheries exports, which were 59 million dollars at the beginning of the 2000s, reached 1 billion 578 million dollars when we look at the last 1-year period today. We're on our way to $2 billion. While 31 provinces exported aquatic products in 2020, today, aquaculture exports are made from 37 provinces. Our exporters from Muğla, who contributed the most to our current success in our export of 1 billion 400 million dollars of fishery products in 2021, brought 521 million dollars to ...
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