Mediterranean - Turkey

But exports expansion prompts complaints from Spain and subsidy investigation by EU

Export drive

The Turkish sea bass and sea bream industry has been steadily increasing production volumes for the last decade or so, to the point where Turkey is now the world’s major producer of sea bass and also closing the gap on the Greek sea bream sector, reported

In 2014,Turkey’s sea bream and sea bass production amounted to more

Hasan Girenes, of Yasar Holdings and chairman of the Izmir Aquaculture Producers Association, said there had been a strong trend of consolidation

number of vertically integrated groups operating their own hatcheries,

launching a subsidy investigation against Turkey to stop the country’s

better cultivation methods for its sea products, managed to increase the production of sea bream and sea bass by 29 per cent in 2014 compared to

When the top 10 countries to which Turkey exported most were listed,

Istanbul Exporters’ Association of Aquaculture and Animal Products dy investigation with the EC because of the increasing sea bream and sea

cause of the penalty system employed by the EU in November, and if the government did not take action quickly, sea bream and sea bass exports

In the trout case, the EC pointed to incentives granted by the Turkish government as an excuse to impose additional taxes on trout products

and sea bass,’ he said, adding that it could be understood from here how important sea bream and sea bass were in terms of high added value

highlighting that EU member states such as the Netherlands, Italy, the UK,