The Determination of Habit of Seafood Consumption of the Antalya Province

In this research, it was aimed to determine habits of seafood consumption in the antalya province. in the research between september 2014-august 2015, predetermined questions were applied to randomly determined people as question-answer. the survey was applied to totally 1365 randomly selected people, 663 women and 702 men. people who took the survey were mostly in the age range of 31-40 (29.15%). 25.42% of the participants of survey were self-employed between all occupational groups. 34.72% of the participants were graduated from a university, 31.72% of the participants were graduated from a primary school, 23.08% of the participants were graduated from a high school and 10.48% of the participants were graduated from secondary school. 43.67% of the participants consumed a seafood 1 day in 2 weeks and 80% of them preferred fresh seafood. 46.96% of the participants stated that they prefer chicken meat because of economic and pratic and 36.12% meat and 16.92% fish meat. in the research it was stated by the participants that the first factor affecting seafood consumption negatively was the lack of consumption habit (43.45%).