‘No hamsi today’: Sustainability of Black Sea fishing sector under threat

Faroz port in Trabzon. All photos © Ingrid Woudwijk

TRABZON – On a very warm day in January, Erkan Acuner sat at a tea house in the Faroz port of Trabzon. He went out fishing that morning, looking for kefal (grey mullet) and tirsi (twaite shad). After some three hours on the water he returned to shore. 

The next day, a school of hamsi (anchovies) was expe…