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From the Cool Waters of the Mediterranean to Your Table
(TURKEY, 9/2/2015)
Kılıç Deniz is among the few corporations in Europe that is engaged in sea bream and sea bass breeding as well as aquaculture works for salt-water. Kılıç Deniz continues its trout breeding activities, which it had started in 2010 at Kahramanmaraş aquaculture facilities. Kılıç Deniz’s trout breeding capacity has reached 6,725 tons in 2012.
"25 years ago, in 1990, I established the first fish farm as a small enterprise in Salih Island. We were producing 30 tons of sea bream in this unsophisticated facility. I am a member of a fishmonger family from Bodrum. Fishery was a field which I liked the most and knew well", says Orhan Kılıç, Holding Chairman of the Executive Board.
Kılıç Deniz has 6 juvenile saltwater hatcheries including Sea bream –sea bass - striped sea bream, red sea bream, corb, two banded sea bream, salmon bass (meagre), porgy, common sea bream, grouper, sturgeon, turbot and flathead mullet.
He wanted to maintain the family business by focusing towards fish farming because he saw that the number of fish in the seas were declining rapidly.
"Overfishing and pollution ruined the sea and fish stock just like many other natural resources. Today, unfortunately this trend continues increasingly. 60 % of the fish don’t exist anymore. Remaining fish stock are also expected to be depleted in the next 30-40 years. We witness the extinction of the most valuable protein source for humans," he adds.
Orhan Kılıç.
"When I look back, I see that I have made the right initiative with an accurate decision. The business I have started grown rapidly and adopting a corporate identity has become a necessity. Then I founded Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İhracat İthalat Ticaret A.Ş. Kılıç has become the only facility in the industry which maintains all the process, producing fish feed as well as fish, performing its sale following the packaging, in a complete self-sufficiency. Within this period, I had the chance to work with great professionals and brought them to Kılıç."
Kılıç's fishery business has grown 1000 times in 20 years and reached a production capacity of 40.000 tons. Today Kılıç is named not only in Turkey, but also in Europe, as one of the most important companies.
100 % of the sea bass and sea bream grower facilities are open sea-off shore systems and are units of latest technology equipped with automatic feeder systems and underwater and surface cameras. Experienced engineers, divers and professional personnel are employed at these systems and both underwater and surface controls are conducted with great attention and devotion.
The grower facilities are open sea-off shore systems with the latest technology equipped with automatic feeder systems and underwater and surface cameras.
Reaching the serving size in about 14-22 months, the sea bass and sea bream fishes are sent to the packaging facilities that is under Kılıç Holding. The journey of the fish which has starts in the cool waters of the Mediterranean, continues here and ends on your table.
Kılıç Deniz feed factory in Muğla.
Fish feed is produced at Kılıç Deniz Feed Factory and is one of the largest feed factories extruder technology in Turkey with 120,000 tons of annual capacity and bear the Aqua K brand.
All processes, starting from the arrival of the fish to the hatcheries until they are sent to packaging facilities are recorded and fish can be monitored in all of the company's systems. The EPS packaging factory operating under Kılıç Deniz complies with EU norms.
Kılıç Deniz fish are carefully nurtured for 18 months.
Led by Kılıç, culture fishery industry changed the conditions where fish was exclusive to the upper income groups, and introduced it to the public, providing healthy and nutritious marine products to the Turkish people and customers from more than 40 countries. Started off with the mission of “contributing to the raising of healthy generations with enabling Turkish people to eat high quality, fresh and inexpensive fish", Kılıç Deniz has acted with the awareness of social responsibility.
Kılıç Deniz ready to cook products are easily prepared, they can be cooked in the oven in its plastic bag or in boiling water.
"As a person who dedicated his life on proper practice of this business, I adopted a personal mission of constantly telling parents about the importance and value of fish. Our fish consumption is still one-third of developed countries. For this reason, there is still a lot to do", says Orhan Kılıç.
Orhan Kılıç adds, "The increase of the percent of aquaculture within the overall fish consumption in Turkey and worldwide due to the raising awareness about healthy living, promises us a bright future as it did until today".
About Kılıç Deniz
With its professional experience of over 20 years, Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İhracat İthalat ve Ticaret A.Ş. (“Kılıç Deniz”), a Kılıç Holding A.Ş corporation, has been operating in Turkish aquaculture sector and has formed a perfect integration since 1991, the year of its incorporation.
Kılıç Deniz offers its products to the domestic market and also exports to many countries, primarily in Europe. With its 30 thousand tons of annual capacity, today, Kılıç Deniz exports to more than 40 countries.
Kılıç Deniz also offers canned practical, healthy and ready to eat meals for preparing appetizing sandwiches and canapés, and to add flavor to salads and pasta dishes.
(TURKEY, 9/2/2015)
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