Future Aquaculture Trends of Sivas in the Central Anatolia of Turkey
Seher Dirican
Citation :Seher Dirican, Future Aquaculture Trends of Sivas in the Central Anatolia of Turkey International Journal of Innovative Studies in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries 2017,3(2) : 1-6
On a global scale aquaculture is a rapidly growing sector. Sivas has quite a rich inland water potential in terms of aquaculture, but there is surprisingly no compiled information about planned future aquaculture developments of Sivas in the Central Anatolia of Turkey. Similarly, there are no forecasts indicating a development of aquaculture in Sivas over the next 10 years. This study describes the future aquaculture trends of Sivas in the Central Anatolia of Turkey. Current data of aquaculture production of Sivas Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of 2001-2014 were used for this purpose.Future of aquaculture production trends were analyzed. Over the past 14 years, aquaculture production increased from 319.50 tons in 2001 to 5554.50 tons in 2014. A trend model, fitted to the 2001-2014 aquaculture production, estimated 10554.25 tons for 2025 in Sivas. If the present trend continues, the aquaculture production of Sivas will double by 2025.