AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINTS OF LAKE BARDAWEEL FISHERIES, Egypt.

AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON DEVELOPMENT

CONSTRAINTS OF LAKE BARDAWEEL FISHERIES,

Egypt.

By
s. A. FATTOUH*
*National Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries, Alexandria, Egypt.
Key words: Economic, Fisheries, Lake Bardaweel.
INTRODUCTION
There is an evident contradiction between the availability of
natural, human and capital potentials for fishery exploitation in
Egypt, and the excessively increasing levels of fish import trade.
Growing demand for fish in the Egyptian markets which is due
mainly to : 1) increase of population; 2) increase in real incomes;
3) Fish prices increases at a decreasing rate than other animal
protein food; and 4) increasing consumption patterns for fishes,
reveal the need to increase catch rates from its extensive capture
fisheries by effective fisheries management and development so
as to achieve national goals for food security in the country in
quantitative and qualitative tenus and raising per capita fish
consumption by the year 2000 to 10 Kg.