ANTALYA · AKDENİZ · A FIELD GUIDE TO MEDITERRANEAN FISH

The Mediterranean fish field guide.

A working encyclopedia of the Turkish coast’s fish — species, families, and field notes — read it in English, Türkçe, or Українська.

Plate illustration of a European sea bass

110 species

Every entry photographed and cross-referenced with its family and Turkish name.

12 families

From white fish and pelagics to shellfish and bottom-dwellers of the Antalya shelf.

Coast to shelf

Entries span shoreline species, mid-water pelagics, and the deeper reefs of the eastern Mediterranean.

Three languages

Read every entry in English, Türkçe, or Українська — switch from the header.

Plate illustration of a gilt-head bream

“A good fish guide is the one you actually carry back to the dock — not the one locked behind a paywall.”

About this guide

A working encyclopedia, not a sales catalogue

Most of what you find about Mediterranean fish online is either a sales catalogue or a scientific paper behind a paywall. This guide sits between the two: every species has a Turkish name, an English common name, the family it belongs to, and a short field description — illustrated with a hand-drawn specimen plate.

Entries are grouped into working families (white fish, pelagics, shellfish, bottom-dwellers, and so on) so you can browse by what you caught, not by what an algorithm wants to show you. We update the guide as the season — and the sea — turns.

  • Photographed & illustrated specimen plates
  • Turkish, English, and Ukrainian names side by side
  • Grouped by family, not by price or popularity
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More species, more families — the guide keeps growing with the season.

Help build the guide

Suggest a species we’re missing

Spotted a species on the Antalya coast that isn’t in the guide yet? Send us a note and we’ll add it to the next update.

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