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'Turkish Salmon': The Black Sea's New Rose-coloured Gold

Trout processing in Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast, where the industry is surging thanks to export demand (Credit: AFP)

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 $500,000 in 2017 to $86 million 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".

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