The economic effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on Turkish fisheries in the western Black Sea region

Mustafa Zengin

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0243-1432

Central Fisheries Research Institute, Kaşüstü, Yomra, Trabzon, TÜRKİYE

Abstract

The war between Ukraine and Russia, the two neighbouring countries bordering the Black Sea in the north, caused many political, economic, environmental and fisheries consequences in 2022. The impacts on fisheries by the banning due to mines drifting to the Turkish part of the western Black Sea were investigated in this study.

Keywords: Russia-Ukraine War, mine threats, western Black Sea fisheries

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