Fishermen in Kızılırmak Delta in northern Türkiye ask authorities to broaden the looking space for “Israeli” carp, an invasive species damaging ecosystems in wetlands.
Originally named Prussian carp, or carassius gibelio, the fish, one among 26 invasive species within the Black Sea area of the nation, known as “Israeli” by native fishermen, in reference to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. The authorities already sponsors its hunt, supplying incentives to fishermen to eradicate its inhabitants. Fishermen hunt about 3 tons yearly, however they complain that the world designated for looking was reasonably restricted and sought its enlargement.
The invasive species proved dangerous to the delta, which spreads throughout an space of 56,000 hectares. Though lowering water ranges additionally contributed to a decline of their inhabitants, they proliferated once more when the water ranges rose.
Mehmet Tekür, who heads a fishermen’s cooperative within the Black Sea province of Samsun, says the carp are extremely harmful to their nets and inflict injury on them. He hails the federal government’s help to fishermen by supplying free nets, however their struggle in opposition to Israeli carp is “futile” so long as they don’t seem to be allowed to hunt the fish in areas within the delta closed to looking. “Fishing of carp helps protection of the ecosystem,” he informed Demirören News Agency (DHA) on Tuesday.
Professor Fatma Telli Karakoç, a tutorial from Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ), says invasive species “harm every stage of the food chain.”
“They damage the nets and fishermen have little use for them as they are not meaty and cannot be sold as much as they wanted. It is only good as bait for other fish. More importantly, they harm the other species, undermining fishermen’s livelihood,” she mentioned.
