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Project knits Western Balkan countries closer to each other and to the EU
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The eggs are acclimatised to the water temperature in the hatchery and placed in incubators where they stay for a couple of weeks.
is managed using special software that monitors all the parameters and generates reports, says Mr Tasel. Managers at the Turkey office can also log on to the system and see the status of the farm for themselves. Moreover, the general director for trout farming in Kilic Turkey spends a week each month in Albania making sure that everything is running smoothly. Saimir Todi himself spends 1-2 days a week at the farm in Shkodra and the rest of the time at the office in Tirana. The facility in Albania is responsible purely for production, processing, and packaging; all the sales and marketing for the fish is done by the office in Turkey, which is responsible for all the customer contact and follow up. The model whereby responsibility is divided between the two entities in Albania and in Turkey has been shown to work and is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
Kilic Aquaculture Albania
Rruga Haxhi Hysen Dalliu Pallat. Alva Const. Shk. Sek. A Kati. 2, Ap. 4 Tirana Albania
Financial and Administrative
Affairs Chief: Saimir Todi +355 69 8722885 saimirtodi@kilicdeniz.com.tr Volume: 1,500 t per year Product: Rainbow trout, 300-350 g Product form: fresh and frozen Markets: EU (primarily Poland and
Romania), small quantities to
Serbia and Macedonia Employees: 40 people of which the engineers and divers are from Turkey
Hatchery manager: Ali Gungorer Farm manager: Caner Tasel
Project knits Western Balkan countries closer to each other and to the EU
A project funded by the EU combines the objectives of improving higher education and promoting collaboration between countries to manage non-native species.
The project “Educational Capacity Strengthening for Risk Management of Nonnative Aquatic Species in the Western Balkans ( Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro)—RiskMan” is an ERASMUS+ KA2 Capacity Building in Higher Education joint project, selected within the 2020— EAC/ A02/2019 call, and runs between November 2020 and November 2022. The project is coordinated by Mu la Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey (http://www.riskman.mu.edu.tr/en/). Besides partner countries from the Western Balkans, the project consortium includes the programme countries: Croatia, Greece, Italy, and North Macedonia.
Educational institutions cooperate with fisheries and aquaculture workers in fight against NNS
The project aims to promote the education of stakeholders, modernise higher education (HE), and stimulate research and cooperation in the risk management of non-native species (NNS). The project has the following specific objectives: (i) to harmonise the HE system on management of aquatic NNS in the Western Balkan partner
