The current situation problems and possible solutions of aquaculture in Hatay province

This work; The technical terms of fisheries aquaculture producers in Hatay province and the suggestions for solutions that will enable the sector to develop in order to determine and obtain the problems they are encountered have been made. A total of 14 enterprises registered in the provincial Directorate of Agriculture in the research area were allowed to conduct surveys in 12 businesses. In Hatay province for 2016 year, amount of caught fish and aquaculture production was 3202 tons per year and amount of production of aquarium fishes was 125 000 fishes per year. When studying the water resources used in the survey, it is seen that 50% of the water resources are used from the source water, 25% from the lake or pond, 17% from the groundwater and 8% from sea water, 59% 17 of them used glass aquariums, plastic and soil aquariums with lakes and 8% others. Businesses have come to the conclusion that they do not have authorized personnel when they do not have transportation problems, cooperatives are experiencing storage problems, and that feed prices have increased costs in business inputs.