Where can I buy fresh fish around Kyrenia?

jj2010


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:00

Is there a fish market (what days?) or a supermarket that sells fresh fish?

Deniz1


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:15

No market. All supermarkets sell fish.

crowsnest


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:16

Hur Deniz they have a shops about best one just near lefkosa roundabout in girne

GinaC


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:17

Güzelyurt Market on Saturday morning.

araneae


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:23

Near the round tower in kyrenia there is a small shop sells fresh fish it is on the row of shops that runs along the bottom of the round tower no name for it sorry .

rocking


Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 421

Message Posted:
26/06/2011 09:54

Hur Deniz he has fish flown in every morning from Turkey - if it needs gutting and cleaning they do it there for you. Great family business - go to the roundabout where you would turn for Lefkosa go across roundabout and they and a few metres on the right hand side very large sign saying Hur Deniz.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 10:23

Hur Deniz................They sell a few varieties other than the obligatory Bass(farmed) or Bronze Head (boring) bream........No Lobster though..or Chancre Crab......:(

jj2010


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 10:44

Thanks a lot for your posts, will give it a try and hope to whisk up a nice meal for my family

fatboy



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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 12:56

go with msg5 they supply the locals.

tonyf


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 13:25

I have to admit that since buying my own villa in TRNC and visiting many times I have been astonished at the lack of "fresh fish and especially shell fish" available on the northern side of what is an island. In the south, which I have not visited for a long time you can get every type of prawn, shrimp, tiger prawn, lobster, crab, squid etc etc, so why not in the north. Is it that we have not got any willing or able fishing boats and crews? I have heard a crazy theory that the sea in the straits between TRNC and Turkey is not deep enough for shell fish and other large fish, absolute bs, shell fish survive in almost any depth of water and the conditions of the sea are identical to that in the southern med around Pathos, Larnaca etc.

I am not talking about imported frozen shell fish, but the verrsion that has just been pulled from the shopping basket of the world THE SEA that we are surrounded by. Come on TC's get your act together, there would be in my opinion, a very large market.

nostradamus


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 16:07

Fresh squid is available here from Hur Deniz and very good it is too. Most of the shellfish that you mention are, in fact, imported into the south anyway! Most of these things - fresh lobster, tiger prawns etc - are pretty expensive and I don't see a market for them here on any kind of regular basis. Last time I looked, one of the restaurants on the sea front in Limassol had lobster on the menu at 80 euros a kilo. The only people buying were rich Russians! Unsurprising really.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 16:21

tonyf....The shell fish here would be the warm water species,if you are looking for "Blues"(Lobster) or Chancre Crab or Spider crab you are in the wrong place........ I was also disappointed having come from Guernsey ,where the sea food is to die for ..............

suehowlittle


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Message Posted:
26/06/2011 21:43

Is there nowhere then to buy the 'freshest' fish directly from the fishermen? I am sure that they would do much better selling it directly to the public than to the eateries etc.



I have had fish from Hur Deniz and it is OK, however if it is flown in from Turkey then it was probably caught the day/night before and this is not, imo 'fresh fish'.



I too was quite dismayed by the lack of 'fresh' fish. I was sure that I could just go and buy it almost daily from the local fishermen.



perhaps they have not considered it?

nostradamus


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Posts: 557

Message Posted:
27/06/2011 07:50

You can go to the fishing harbour at Lapta and try the fishermen there but, don't expect any bargains. The guy from Hur Deniz buys most of it.

TRNCVaughan


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Message Posted:
27/06/2011 08:29

I understand that this end of the Med is too salty, too stagnant and too warm for many species.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
27/06/2011 09:20

Judging by attempts to catch anything, I think you may be right...........:(

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
27/06/2011 09:23

There are fish but there is no real "commercial" fishing in the TRNC, except the fish farms off Famagusta. Shellfish just do not really live in sufficient quantities in this part of the Med, there are lobsters and prawns but in very small numbers.

zeytinnur


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Message Posted:
27/06/2011 15:14

bozdag balikcilik nearly opposite astro

brianc


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Message Posted:
27/06/2011 15:34

Fresh fish ( not farmed ) you can buy from Anvar:



http://forumlovecyprus.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=2199#2199

chriswife


Joined: 30/03/2011
Posts: 449

Message Posted:
27/06/2011 23:13

gosh what a surprise we were hoping to live on fresh fish, so what to put on the bbq that's fresh and reasonable please any advice?

devonboy


Joined: 12/11/2010
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
11/07/2011 00:48

i am considering moving back to trnc soon and thinking of opening a fresh fish shop, would u all be in support of this, i would be well sourced and stocked to meet all of your needs, let me know what u think

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
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Message Posted:
11/07/2011 09:14

Think it's a great idea.

Will you be importing wet fish and shell fish not currently available in TRNC?

landlord


Joined: 08/07/2011
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Message Posted:
11/07/2011 15:50

We agree great idea. Have lived here now for nearly 4 yrs and one of our big disappointments is the lack of fresh fish

swyflot


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Message Posted:
11/07/2011 16:16

msg 21 Definitely!!!!!!!!!

Pandy


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Message Posted:
11/07/2011 23:55

Mess 21 ....I looooooove fresh fish so your possible venture gets the thumbs up from me!!!!

martinD41


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Message Posted:
12/07/2011 00:02

But where will he get Fresh fish in the Med,it's polluted to F.....k ie E-Coli, and I for one would not go near it ..

devonboy


Joined: 12/11/2010
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
12/07/2011 23:17

thanks for the messages of support, I hope to be supplying all types of wet and shell, I am doing a lot of searching around and will visiting trnc to look into what you are all looking for, i will of course keep you posted on my progress and in the meantime if any of you have any ideas suggestions or advice on local supplies it would be much appreciated. I will open a fresh topic on this as well if needed,





MartinD41, I too would not go near for those reasons which is why I aim to do things to the highest standard and will only be supplying fish of the highest quality.

TRNCVaughan


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Message Posted:
13/07/2011 09:48

How about jellied eels? Then someone could open a pie, eel and mash shop. Not forgetting the liquor of course!