Aquafeed Industry in Turkey: its Aquafeed Projections Towards the Year 2015

摘要

Turkey's ecological and natural conditions are very convenient for aquaculture. During 2005 Turkey's aquaculture was 24th in world with a production of 119,177 tonnes. Licensed fish farms and capacity were total 1369 number, 139,522 tons. Turkey has thirteen aquafeed manufacturing mills at present. Seven of these produce only manufactured fish feeds. Both pelleted and extruder fish feeds in Turkey are currently manufactured using feed technology. While manufactured compound feed production reached about 6.8 million tonnes in Turkey, production of aquafeed peaked at 105,058 tonnes in 2005 (approximately 1.5%). In conclusion, Turkey's aquaculture production projections show 129,532 tonnes, 181,055 tonnes, and 276,082 tonnes for 2006, 2010, and 2015 respectively. Accordingly aquafeed manufacture in Turkey has predicted as 215,579 tonnes, 300,027 tonnes and 454,284 tonnes for 2006, 2010, and 2015, respectively.