ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate working conditions in the fishing sector of Turkey. The main focus of this study the working and living conditions in the purse seiners, the most important method of the marine capture fishing in Turkey. This paper leans on a fieldwork in Province of Ordu, one of the most important fishing areas of the eastern Black Sea, where 48% of the marine fishing takes place in Turkey. The cross-sectional study was performed with questionnaire survey with purse seiners crews and semi-structured interviews with owners of the fishing vessels. This paper aims to share emprical findings of the research and generate discussion about the results
Keywords : Fishery, fishery workers, purse seine fishing, purse seine crews
