
Dusky Grouper and White Grouper Fishery Banned Completely for 4 Years
Fishing and underwater hunting of the Dusky grouper Ephinephelus marginatus and White grouper Ephinephelus aeneus to be banned completely for 4 years in between 2016-2020, as proposed by ASOF, AMATÖR SAD, GELBALDER and SAD.

Regulation Amended on Disturbance of Monk Seals in Sea Caves Along Turkish Coasts
The existing regulation on disturbance to Mediterranean monk seals in caves along Turkish coasts was amended as proposed by SAD-AFAG in January this year and published by DG Fishery & Aqua Products in the Official Gazette dated 13 August 2016.

A breeding monk seal habitat in Kuşadası under habitat destruction threat
In 2014, SAD-AFAG had been reported by its Kuşadası Representative that a newly constructed hotel just behind the Botanic Park coasts in Kuşadası was constructing a road and a huge lift for accessing to the rocky shore.

Marmara sea southern coasts survey completed
Original article published in Yeşiliz magazine by TEMA Foundation in 2008 in Turkish
Marmara Sea is an interesting marine area in the world surrounded by the lands of one country. It is an interior sea with its unique marine and coastal biodiversity, long sandy beaches and dunes, coastal deltas and rocky coasts & cliffs and still undiscovered values.

Two pups released on the coast between Anamur and Gazipaşa, Cilicia, Mersin
In cooperation with Turkish Ministry of Environment & Forestry and Turkish Coast Guard and SAD-AFAG, two monk seal pups were released along the coast between Anamur and Gazipaşa, southern Türkiye, one of the most suitable monk seal habitats in the country, in 2nd April 2011.