Turkey kicks off new fishing season

ISTANBUL, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Turkey on Wednesday began the new fishing season in the Marmara Sea, the Black Sea, and the Aegean Sea after a 4.5-month ban.

Local officials in Turkey's largest city Istanbul held a ceremony at a port in the Poyrazkoy village located along the shores of the northern part of the Bosphorus Strait before fishers set sail after midnight.

The annual fishing ban, which goes into e