Investigation of fishing power and economic structure of small-scale fishery in Ordu Region

Small-scale fishing is important in aquaculture consumption at the national level. For this reason, the sociodemographic structure, production amounts and economic situation of small-scale fisheries need to be constantly examined. In this study, the structure of small-scale fishing in Ordu in 2022 and 2023 was examined in terms of economic and fishing power. In the study, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 164 fishermen and it was aimed to determine the economic structure of the fishermen based on their sociodemographic structures, fishing production amounts and income-expense balance. As a result of face-to-face interviews were calculated of the ages of the boats ranged from 1 to 21, 65.30% of the boats used of fish finders. 65.27% of the boats length vary between 5-7.99 m., the ages of the fishermen vary between 25 and 81, 54.88% make a living solely from fishing, 95% of fishermen use fishing gillnet, trammel net and longline for fishing, 87% of the fish caught are sold through brokers, the species that are caught at the highest rate and generate income are red mullet, whiting, Atlantic bonito and sea snails. It has been calculated that the group with income up to 50.000 TL is the highest.