An economic study for the fish production in Egypt

The research problem was represented by the insufficiency or inability of the Egyptian fish production capacity to cover the increasing consumer needs of fish, at a time when Egypt enjoys the seas and the Nile and the possibility of expansion in fish farming, as well as familiarity with some consumers with the possibility of obtaining their needs from animal protein from fish at a lower cost From getting them through other animal protein sources such as red meat. The research also aimed to study the evolution of the amount of fish production from its various sources in Egypt, as well as the evolution of the amount of exports, imports and fish consumption, and a study of the most important economic factors affecting fish production in Egypt during the period (2001-2017) where the results of the research showed that:

The average local production of fish during the study period was about 1.201 million tons, the percentage of which contributed to the seas, about 9.82%, with an average production of about 117.91 thousand tons, while the rate of production of lakes and coastal depressions was about 13.89%, with an average production of about 166. 75 thousand tons, while the average production of the Nile River was about 88.51 thousand tons, at a rate of about 7.37%, while the largest share was through fish farming farms, which amounted to 827.71 thousand tons, at a rate of about 68.92%.
The average of Egypt's fish exports amounted to about 13.16 thousand tons, while the average amount of imports amounted to 239.24 thousand tons, the average available for domestic consumption was about 1.42 million tons, and the average fish gap amounted to 225.06 thousand tons, with a self-sufficiency rate of about 83 96%, and the average per capita share of fish is approximately 18.01 kg.
The results of the research also showed that the most important factors affecting the domestic production of fish are the numbers of non-motorized boats and the amount of fish imports, where the statistical significance of the model as a whole was established at a level of significance (0.01), where it was found that there is a positive relationship consistent with economic logic and statistically significant Between the production of natural fisheries from fish and the number of non-motorized boats, which means that increasing the number of non-motorized boats by a thousand boats annually will lead to an increase in the quantity produced from natural fisheries by 3.470 thousand tons, as it was also shown that there is an inverse relationship consistent with the economic logic and statistically significant Between you Aggregate fisheries from fish and the amount of fish imports, as an increase in the amount of fish imports annually by one thousand tons leads to a decrease in the amount of fish produced annually by 256 tons, as the modified determination factor reached about 0.76, which means that 76% of the changes in the production of natural fisheries are due to changes in The number of non-motor boats and the amount of annual fish imports, and about 24% of the changes in the amount of fish produced are due to other factors not taken into account.