Abstract
In the study, production and capacity utilization rates and annual production of farms engaged in aquaculture in Turkey are determined. Turkey aquaculture production has reached 373356 tons in 2019. Of this production, 68.82% was produced in marine aquaculture and 31.18% was produced in the inland aquaculture. In Turkey, in 2019, 79.6% of the farms actively engaged in production was in inland and 20.4% was in the seas. It has been evaluated that 29.15% of the farms where 65.83% of the total fishery product needs are met in the Aegean Region. In aquaculture in Turkey, the total project capacity was determined to be 522778 tons. As is the case in production level and the number of farms, the highest capacity is 245894 tons in the Aegean Region, followed by the Black Sea Region with 75611 tons and Eastern Anatolia Region with 62349 tons. The project capacity utilization rates of the enterprises were 84.45% in the seas and 53.77% in inland, and it was determined as 71.42% in general.