"Anglers Are in Dire Straits Along Istanbul's Bosphorus
Mass Fish Migration Celebrated by Aristotle Has Slowed; Why Tuna Steered Right
By MARC CHAMPION
ISTANBUL—Every fall, at least for the last couple of thousand years, people here have been going nuts for fish.
The cause is an annual mass migration, which has been late this year, of finned creatures as they head south from the cooling waters of the Black Sea toward the warmth of the Aegean. To make the journey, however, the bluefish, bonito, sea bass, horse mackerel and other species have to crowd from the open sea into the tiny Bosphorus strait, just 820 yards wide at its narrowest, past an estimated 10,000 waiting rods and nets on any given day."
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