Around 110 million tons of fishery products are produced annually in the
world, and 25 million tons of this come from fish-breeding farms. Some
200,000 tons of Turkey’s 700,000 tons of fish produced come from farms.
While
Turkey exported around $1.4 billion of fish and fish products in 2011,
this number increased to $1.66 billion in 2012. “We are aiming at
reaching 1.85 billion this year,” said the association’s head, Ahmet
Tuncay Sagun.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, have called for the
fishing ban to be extended until Oct. 1, saying the period from April to
October is the most crucial time for fish to lay their eggs.