May 27, 2012
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Turkey’s blue crab population threatened by excessive hunting
1 December 2009 / TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL
Blue crabs, which in Turkey inhabit the country’s Aegean and Mediterranean waters, are threatened by excessive hunting in Turkey, a professor has warned.
Stressing that a hunting ban should be imposed from May to July, when Mediterranean blue crabs spawn, Sezginer Tunçer, a lecturer at the faculty of fisheries at Çanakkale’s Onsekiz Mart University, told the Anatolia news agency that the crabs are caught with eel bucks, trawlers or cages and explained they are seen mostly in Turkey in the lagoons of Muğla’s Köyceğiz and Adana’s Yumurtalık districts.
While pointing out that there are five species of crab that are highly valued and economically profitable found in Turkish waters, Tunçer said that blue crabs are the most lucrative and are exported through fishery cooperatives in Turkey.
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