page_title: Turtle farming
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Turtle farming / Geography / Europe
caption_attribution_description: Original image description from the Deutsche Fotothek Fischwirtschaft &amp; Schildkröte
context_page_description: Turtle farming is the practice of raising turtles and tortoises of various species commercially. Raised animals are sold for use as gourmet food, traditional medicine ingredients, or as pets. Some farms also sell young animals to other farms, either as breeding stock, or more commonly to be raised there to a larger size for subsequent resale.
  Turtle farms primarily raise freshwater turtles; therefore, turtle farming is usually classified as aquaculture. However, some terrestrial tortoises are also raised on farms for the pet trade.
  Only three serious attempts are believed to have been made to farm sea turtles.
  Only one of them, in Cayman Islands, continues to operate.
  The one in Australia's Torres Strait Islands folded after a few years of operation, and the one in Réunion has been converted to a public aquarium.
context_section_description: Turtle farms in Eastern Europe, in particular in North Macedonia, supply animals to pet shops in EU countries.
caption: In his Georgica curiosa (1682), the Austrian Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg described the design of a pond for raising turtles.[41]
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