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Mussels will clean the Sea of Marmara, Turkey

Fresh Mussel
Turkiye
Published Nov 4, 2021

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Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli said, "The Sea of Marmara will reach an annual mussel production capacity of 45 thousand tons. In this context, we are establishing a kind of biological water purification system. Thus, 22.5 billion liters of water per hour will be filtered and cleaned by mussels." Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli talked about the work of the ministry in the fight against mucilage at the Parliamentary Investigation Commission on Mucilage Problem.

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Minister Pakdemirli said that the Marmara Sea is under significant pollution pressure and said, "In the Marmara Sea, a total of 62 species of economically valuable seafood, mainly anchovy, horse mackerel and sardines, are fished. Although the amount of fisheries caught has decreased to 6.3 ...
Source: Sondakika
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