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T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> aims to reach 750,000 tons of aquaculture <\/a>production and $3 billion in seafood exports<\/a> by 2028, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said.<\/p>\n Yumakli said T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s fisheries and aquaculture sector has made significant progress over the past 24 years and achieved an all-time production record in 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2025, we broke an all-time record with 1.04 million tons of production. Sixty percent of this came from aquaculture. Over the past 24 years, aquaculture production increased tenfold, reaching 627,000 tons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Yumakli noted that the country currently ranks second in Europe in aquaculture production. According to Yumakli, T\u00fcrkiye exported seafood products to 100 countries in 2025, generating $2.3 billion in export revenue.<\/p>\n \u201cOur target for 2028 is to reach 750,000 tons of aquaculture production and $3 billion in exports\u2026 We have this potential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Yumakli also pointed to growing domestic fish consumption, saying per capita consumption increased from 5.5 kilograms to 8.8 kilograms over the last decade, representing a 60 percent rise. However, he said T\u00fcrkiye still lags behind many countries in seafood consumption and called for greater public awareness of the nutritional benefits of fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MU\u011eLA \u00a0 \u00a0 T\u00fcrkiye aims to reach 750,000 tons of aquaculture production and $3 billion in seafood exports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[81136,72,113,7319,61,60,63623],"class_list":["post-540075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-aquaculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-trkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The minister highlighted Turkish salmon, sea bass, trout, sea bream and mussels as key products that have already established themselves in international markets.<\/p>\n