The Akel Group in Turkey is a major trader of agricultural products. Among the group companies is Agromey, a producer of seabass and seabream with its own feed manufacturing plant, on-growing sites for the fish, processing and packaging facilities, as well as sales and marketing divisions that trade the fish on markets within Turkey as well as around the world.
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Kilic Seafood is synonymous with the Turkish fish farming sector. The company is fully integrated producing at all stages of the farmed seafood value chain. The main production is seabass, seabream, meagre, and rainbow trout. In addition to on-growing facilities for farmed fish, Kilic has hatcheries, feed production units, packaging facilities and processing factories producing a range of sophisticated items. Since 2015 the company has also been farming tuna, on-growing the fish in cages in the sea off Karaburun near Izmir.
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Kocaman Balikcilik is among the biggest producers and exporters of marine and freshwater products in Turkey. In addition, it is involved in joint ventures to farm tuna and to produce buttered snails.
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The Netherlands is an important hub in the international fish trade. One quarter of the raw materials that are processed or traded by Dutch seafood companies come from the country’s own fishery. The major share – fish and seafood worth about 2.2 billion euros – is imported. Only 20 per cent of the products produced in the Netherlands remain within the country. Most of them are exported, mainly to other European countries. The total value of Dutch seafood exports adds up to over 2.5 billion euros.
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A joint venture between the BioMar Group from Denmark and the Sagun Group of Turkey, BioMar-Sagun has established a greenfield fish feed factory in Söke, Turkey, that went on stream in the middle of 2016.
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EUROFISH conducted a study on consumption of fish and seafood in Croatia. The objective of the study was to conduct a survey to estimate consumer habits and preferences regarding fish consumption in Croatia and obtain related information on supply and demand.…
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A national aquaculture workshop was held in Vilnius to highlight the latest developments in the aquaculture industry,…
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ProjectsSerbia
Technical assistance to the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection
In the framework of the EuropeAid assistance project EUROFISH provided professional consultancy services as a Senior Non-Key Expert in EU Fishery Legislation to the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection.… -
EUROFISH, in close collaboration with the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), has assessed the request of the Albanian Ministry of Agriculture,…
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Nobody doubts that the Spanish fishery and aquaculture sector is at the cutting edge, of every part of the value chain. The figures confirm it. Spain is the biggest producer in terms of both capture fisheries and aquaculture in the European Union, the second biggest European consumer, and holds the sixth place in the world.
