The expansion of intensive marine aquaculture in Turkey: The next‐to‐last commodity frontier?
Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food‐producing sectors, and its share in global seafood production is rising significantly compared with capture fisheries. This transforms seafood production practices while allowing capital to expand to new marine commodity frontiers. Building on the...
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Wiley
2025
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| Summary: | Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food‐producing
sectors, and its share in global seafood production is rising
significantly compared with capture fisheries. This transforms
seafood production practices while allowing capital
to expand to new marine commodity frontiers. Building on
the conceptualization of aquaculture as a new frontier for
capture fisheries, the article aims to uncover how commodity
frontiers expand within the intensive marine aquaculture
sector and shape the transformation of seafood production
by focusing on its recent growth in Turkey. It analyses this
transformation based on 22 in‐depth interviews with key
social actors in Turkey, as well as a review of sector and
state reports and the relevant legislations of Turkey and
the European Union, and argues that the three‐pronged
horizontal, vertical, and taxonomic expansion already
observed in industrial capture fisheries has similarly taken
place in intensive marine aquaculture through the commodity
widening, deepening, and marketing strategies employed
by aquaculture firms. |
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