Türkiye’s aquaculture production and export have shown great progress, especially with the investments made in recent years. On the other hand, the fact that Turkish entrepreneurs brought the world’s most modern and integrated facilities in the aquaculture and animal products sector to our country in the last 20-25 years is one of the factors that increase the export of the sector. So much so that, at the end of 2020, despite the pandemic, we have demonstrated a performance that will exceed the 1 billion USD target. Türkiye’s aquaculture export reached 1,4 billion US dollars in 2021. In 2022, we increased our exports to 1 billion 638 million dollars.

With the existing investments, the Turkish aquaculture industry has had the opportunity to settle in the European market seriously. In addition, our exports are increasing day by day with the contribution of intensive promotional activities and marketing efforts in the Middle East and Russian markets. We are planning to continue to add value to our exports in 2023 by increasing our promotional activities for Africa, which is our target market in the upcoming period. On the other hand, we will continue to promote the Turkish aquaculture sector in the international arena by participating in international fairs in order to increase our export to our existing markets and pave the way for new markets. In addition, we will continue our efforts to increase domestic consumption by drawing attention to the numerous benefits of fish in order to increase fish consumption, which is currently low in our country. Until now, we have participated in many food and aquaculture fairs all over the world, from Germany to Belgium, from Russia to UAE, from the USA  to Canada, and from Asian countries.

Thanks to all these devoted works we have done on behalf of the aquaculture sector, we expect to reach our export target of 1.830 billion US dollars for 2023 which is the 100th anniversary of our Republic.