A tale of three hatcheries

摘要

Turkey's three leading gilthead seabream and European seabass hatcheries could not be more different if they tried. At one end of the spectrum is the Kilic Group where everything - including the size of the fry they grow - is done big. At the oppositeend is Akuvatur where philosophy and ethics are discussed so much you start to wonder if fry are transported in a fleet of 1972 VW vans. Smack in-between is Pinar Balik which treads a comfortable middle path between the two. In the mid-1990s Kilic's chairman,Orhan Kilic,started on his drive to be No. 1. Everything was built with this idea in mind,from its hatcheries, to its feed mill, to today and the 50-metre diameter cages they use - the largest in the Mediterranean region. Even his fry - grown to 20grams - are the largest.