One Health: The Interface Between Fish and Human Health

Abstract

The Black Sea is a unique sea with its characteristics and is Turkey s most important sea. The Black Sea is like a large laboratory and is one of the most interesting seas of the word both in scientific and non-scientific aspects. Although Turkey is surrounded by sea on three sides, the fisheries activities are carried out in mostly the Black Sea. Risks to the Black Sea biodiversity are the entrance of alien species, commercial fisheries and overutilization of resources, contaminants especially heavy metals and pollution from industry, agriculture, sewage and touristic activities. These contaminants disturb the natural balance and extremely threaten it. Many of them are used in industry and drained to marine coastal environment as waste. Fast population growth and industrial developments of the last four decades have increased in the coastal cities of the Black Sea. These contaminants can also infect seafoods especially fish and finally people via consumption of these fish. Rising in the amounts of contaminants in the marine coastal ecosystems may outcome a rise in the concentrations of metal taken up and hereby accumulated by fish (Bat 2017).