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Monday, May 13, 2013

FCI Conducts Pilot Aquaculture Stewardship Council Trout Audit in Turkey
TURKEY - Food Certification International (FCI) is currently carrying out its first Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) pilot trout audit for a fish farm company...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

New Fish Species Described from Streams of Manyas Lake Basin
TURKEY - The newly described species, Alburnoides manyasensis, belongs to the large carp family Cyprinidae that includes freshwater fish such as carps, the minnows,...

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012: Not One to be Missed
TURKEY - The fourth Offshore Aquaculture Conference will be held in Izmir, Turkey on 17-19 October 2012 and will be supported by the Republic of Turkey Ministry...

Friday, September 21, 2012

An Opportunity to Shape the Future of Offshore Aquaculture
TURKEY - The programme at the Offshore Mariculture Conference will include an important plenary discussion on ‘The Governance of mariculture in International Waters’...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

FAO to Provide Keynote Speaker for Offshore Mariculture Conference
TURKEY - Alessandro Lovatelli, Aquaculture Officer, Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service (FIRA), Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO of the UN will...

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Illegal Fishing Threatens Turkish Fish Industry
TURKEY - llegal fishing in Turkey has reached its peak, fishing experts say, and state that many people are continuing to trawl near the shore, which is illegal,...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Oceana Seeks Shark & Swordfish Protections
TURKEY - Oceana is seeking protections for sharks and swordfish at the 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Swordfish On The Agenda At ICCAT Meeting
TURKEY - As ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) opens in Istanbul, WWF releases a new study showing current fishing capacity...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Ten More GMO Feeds On Turkey’s Doorstep
TURKEY - The deadline for public input on Turkey’s biosecurity committee’s recent regulation to allow the import of 10 kinds of animal feed made from genetically...

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Biomin.net Now Available In Turkish
TURKEY - In cooperation with its Turkish joint venture Biokey, BIOMIN has now launched a Turkish version of the corporate website www.biomin.net....

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Luvata Seawire Cage Deployed Off Turkey
TURKEY - Luvata, a world leader in metal solutions manufacturing and related engineering services, has announced the successful launch of a SeawireTM cage off the...

Friday, October 01, 2010

Skretting Sees Opportunity In Turkish Markets
TURKEY - Ten years ago, Skretting saw an opportunity in an emerging aquaculture industry in Turkey. ...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Skretting Opens Fish Feed Plant in Turkey
TURKEY - Fish feed producer, Skretting, has opened a new feed production plant in Güllük to serve the expanding Turkish aquaculture market. ...

Friday, July 17, 2009

Turkish Production Slips
TURKEY - Aquaculture production in Turkey was down by 61.3 per cent last year compared to 2007 according to official statistics....

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Milas Fish Farms Pollute Sea as they Leave
MILAS, TURKEY - Fish farms are moving away from Güllük Bay, but they are leaving behind pollution....

Friday, May 15, 2009

Turkish Fleets Chase Bluefin to its End
TURKEY - Disregarding agreed bluefin tuna quotas, the Turkish government has set itself a unilateral bluefin tuna quota and broken its international commitments....

Friday, April 03, 2009

29 Turkish Fish Farms Shut Down Over Pollution
TURKEY - After long debates and a legal process about pollution, 29 fish farms in Mugla will be shut down because they have not been relocated in the past year. ...

Monday, June 30, 2008

Skretting Starts Work on 100,000-tonne Feed Plant
TURKEY - Fish feed company Skretting, part of the Nutreco group, last week celebrated the official start of building work for its new fish feed plant near Bodrum...

Monday, October 29, 2007

Aquaculture Europe 2007 underway in Istanbul
TURKEY - The International Conference and Exhibition Aquaculture Europe 2007 runs from the 24 to 27 October. ...

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Promotions to increase fish consumption
TURKEY - The Fish Promotion Group has enhanced its promotional campaign after undergoing a restructuring process in which exporter unions, the fishery products federation...

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Waste water causes massive fish kill in Golden Horn
TURKEY - Once known for its pure water and later claimed to have returned to its golden age thanks to the efforts of the İstanbul Municipality after decades...

Monday, June 11, 2007

The Battle Over Fish Farms
TURKEY - The verdict by the State Council a fortnight ago overturning the decree banning fish farms in certain areas has led to further disputes between fish farm...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fish farms go nowhere
TURKEY - A law that would have closed more than half of Turkey's controversial fish farms has been overturned by the Council of State in a decision to be made public...

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Concerns mount for fish farming as new project voted out
TURKEY - Demonstrators are celebrating after the spectre of a fish farm off the beautiful coast of Altinkum was finally killed off....

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Fish farms deadlock - Altinkum Bay, Turkey
TURKEY - In the latest twist to the fish farms off Altinkum Bay, it has been announced that Aydin Provincial Council has passed the plans....

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Fish farms face new regulations, but problems remain
TURKEY - The winding road along Turkey’s Aegean coast sometimes gets narrow or bumpy, but the beautiful scenery remains, despite the fact that in certain places...

Friday, December 15, 2006

Aquaculture Europe 2007 to be hosted by Turkey
TURKEY - Aquaculture Europe 2007 is the first of the ‘new format’ Aquaculture Europe events, that will combine a scientific conference with an exhibition. ...