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ISO 22000 Mersin Since 1972

Your spec. Our line.

Sea bass and sea bream in the grade, form and packing you specify. At volume, on schedule, with the paperwork in order.

Bright fish processing hall with stainless steel conveyor lines carrying whole fish, workers seen from behind
Mersin processing line0 / +2 °C

Akgöl in figures

4,500t

produced and shipped per yearsample figure

40t/day

processing capacitysample figure

2,500t

cold storage capacitysample figure

18

countries servedsample figure

  • 1972Founded by Şaban Akgöl in Hatay
  • ISO 22000food safety management system
  • Middle East and EUexport markets
  • 21products in the range

Cage to carton, one operator.

Farming, processing, storage and dispatch run by one company. Your spec never changes hands along the chain.

  1. Aerial view of circular offshore fish farm cages on calm Mediterranean water at golden hour

    Farming

    Sea bass and sea bream are grown in our own offshore cages.

    Sea bass, sea bream

  2. Gloved hands filleting a sea bass with a knife on a cutting board

    Processing and packing

    Grading, gutting, filleting, freezing and packing at our Mersin plant.

    40 t/day processing capacitysample figure

  3. Plain white cartons stacked and stretch wrapped on a pallet in a clean dispatch area

    Export

    Fresh and frozen product, cold chain to the Middle East and Europe.

    18 countries servedsample figure

Cold storage room with tall pallet racks of white cartons and slight frostFrozen product≤ −18 °C

The Mersin plant runs to your order.

Each lot enters the line set to the grade, form and packing on the order. Fresh product is processed on harvest day; frozen product is blast frozen and stored.

  1. Grading
  2. Gutting
  3. Filleting
  4. Blast freezing
  5. Packing
  6. Cold storage

0/+2°C

Fresh product

≤−18°C

Frozen product

40t/day

processing capacitysample figure

2,500t

cold storage capacitysample figure

Two species we grow ourselves.

Sea bass and sea bream come from our own farms. The rest of the range is processed in house or sourced from producers we trust.

Whole sea bass, side view

Sea bass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Own farm

Whole fish
200/300 · 300/400 · 400/600 · 600/800 · 800/1000 · 1000+ g
Fillet
100/120 · 120/140 · 140/180 g
Forms
Fresh, Frozen, Whole, Gutted, Fillet
Packing
Styrofoam box, 10 kg; Carton, 10 kg
Whole sea bream, side view

Sea bream

Sparus aurata

Own farm

Whole fish
200/300 · 300/400 · 400/600 · 600/800 · 800/1000 · 1000+ g
Fillet
100/120 · 120/140 · 140/180 g
Forms
Fresh, Frozen, Whole, Gutted, Fillet
Packing
Styrofoam box, 10 kg; Carton, 10 kg

Full range 21

Sea fish

ProductScientific nameFormsGradesSource
Common pandoraPagellus erythrinusFresh, Frozen70/110 gSourced
Red mulletMullus barbatusFresh, Frozen70/110 gSourced
Flathead grey mulletMugil cephalusFresh, Frozen400/500 gSourced
Atlantic mackerelScomber scombrusFrozen, Whole200/400 g; 250/400 g; 300/500 gSourced
Norwegian salmonSalmo salarFresh, Frozen, Whole, Gutted, Fillet, Sticks, Smoked2/3 kg; 3/4 kg; 1/1.2 kgSourced
Turkish salmon (sea trout)Oncorhynchus mykissFresh, Frozen, Gutted, Fillet, Sticks, Smoked2/3 kg; 3/4 kgSourced

Freshwater fish

ProductScientific nameFormsGradesSource
Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykissFresh, Frozen, Whole, Cleaned250/250 gSourced
Pike perch (zander)Sander luciopercaFrozen20/40 g; 40/60 g; 60/110 g; 110/170 g; 170/220 g; 220/280 g; 280 g+Sourced
Common carp (scaled and mirror)Cyprinus carpioFresh, Frozen500/1000 g; 1000/2000 gSourced
Crucian carpCarassius carassiusFresh, Frozen250/350 gSourced
Shabout (Tigris barbel)Arabibarbus grypusFresh, Frozen1/5 kgSourced
Big-scale sand smeltAtherina boyeriFrozen200/300 pcs/kg; 300/500 pcs/kgSourced
Pangasius filletPangasianodon hypophthalmusFrozen, Fillet170/220 gSourced

Crustaceans

ProductScientific nameFormsGradesSource
ShrimpPenaeus semisulcatus, Penaeus indicusFresh, Frozen, Whole, Peeled8/12 pcs/kg; 13/15 pcs/kg; 16/20 pcs/kg; 21/30 pcs/kgSourced
Giant red shrimpAristaeomorpha foliaceaFrozen, Whole15/25 pcs/kg; 25/40 pcs/kg; 40/60 pcs/kg; 60/80 pcs/kgSourced

Molluscs

ProductScientific nameFormsGradesSource
SquidLoligo vulgarisFresh, Frozen, Whole, Tube, RingsU2 (2/2 pcs/kg); U3 (3/6 pcs/kg); U3 (6/10 pcs/kg); U5 (5/5 pcs/kg); U7 (7/7 pcs/kg)Sourced
OctopusOctopus vulgarisFresh, Frozen, Cleaned, Flower cut1/2 kg; 2/3 kg; 3 kg+Sourced
CuttlefishSepia officinalisFrozen100/200 g; 200/300 g; 300/400 g; 400/500 gSourced
Mediterranean musselMytilus galloprovincialisFrozenOn requestSourced

Certified system, unbroken cold chain.

Food safety runs on an ISO 22000 management system. Temperature is held under control from harvest to dispatch.

ISO 22000

Food safety management system

Download certificatePDF
Open white styrofoam box with whole sea bream packed in rows on flake ice, top down

Temperature

Fresh product
0 / +2 °C
Frozen product
≤ −18 °C

With every shipment

  • Veterinary health certificate
  • Certificate of origin
  • Packing list and invoice
  • Lot label and traceability record

To the Middle East and the EU, fresh or frozen.

Fresh product leaves by refrigerated truck; frozen product ships in reefer containers out of Mersin port.

White refrigerated shipping container lifted by a crane at a port quay
Sea, reefer container

18

countries servedsample figure

Markets
Middle East, European Union
Lead time
Fresh 24 to 48 hours, frozen 1 to 2 weekssample figure
Minimum order
1 palletsample figure
Incoterms
FOB, CFR, CIF or DAP per order
Transport
Road, refrigerated truck
Sea, reefer container

In the fish trade since 1972.

  1. 1972

    Şaban Akgöl started in 1972, selling fresh fish in Hatay. It grew into a family business supplying fish from Hatay to markets across Turkey.

  2. 2012

    Incorporated in 2012, Akgöl Balıkçılık moved from retail into production: sea bass and sea bream farms, then a processing, packing and cold storage plant in Mersin.

  3. Today

    Today we handle the fish ourselves from the sea to the box, and deliver it to buyers in the Middle East and Europe under an ISO 22000 food safety system.

Left: Akgöl cartons on the taping machine. Right: the Akgöl Balıkçılık plant building and a reefer truck.
Akgöl plant, existing photo

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Wholesale and retail buyers in Turkey

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