The ‘Turkish salmon’ industry has exploded in step with global demand for salmon

Turkish salmon displayed at a fish market in Trabzon.

Sitting in his spacious office with a view of the Black Sea, Tayfun Denizer smiles: His rainbow trout, raised in submerged cages, have made him a wealthy man.

“Our exports surged from US$500,000 (RM2.1mil) in 2017 to US$86mil (RM366mil) last year, and this is just the beginning,” said Denizer, general manager of Polifish, one of the Black Sea’s main producers of what is marketed as “Turkish salmon”.