Turkey has big potential in the fisheries sector, having coasts to four different seas with diverse physical, chemical and biological properties supporting a large diversity of economical fish species. Along with the ...

The veined rapa whelk is one of the most important invasive species in the Black Sea ecosystem since the 1940s. Following its introduction to the Black Sea, it destroyed most of the bivalve populations, mainly the Mediterranean ...

This study reports that the annual amounts and diversity of the species, marketing in Istanbul wholesale fish market between 1998 and 2007. However, the results compared with both old reports (1909-1923 and 1996-1997) of ...

Length-weight relationships were estimated for ten demersal fish species caught with bottom trawl: black goby (Gobius niger), knout goby (Mesogobius batrachocephalus), round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), whiting (Merlangius ...

Whiting (Merlangius merlangus euxinus L., 1758) is one of the most commonly distributed species in the entire Black Sea coastal waters of Turkey. Population parameters of whiting were studied using 1884 specimens obtained ...

The population parameters of mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis Linnaeus, 1758) were studied regarding age composition, sex ratio, growth, survival and mortality rates, and the exploitation rate in the Aegean coasts of Turkey ...

In this study were examined the catch composition and catch, rates of commercial and discard species from the gill nets commonly used in small-scale fisheries in Ordu province. The trammel net captured a total of 25 species ...