Importance fish wealth

                                                                                                  Fish its importance as a source    


           

         




I headed Egypt during the past twenty years about the field of aquaculture, where felt necessity to bridge the food gap due to ongoing population increase, and through the expansion of the production of new strains of rapid fish growth and high quality to ensure food security and increase export rates , thus reducing the import rate and provide the local market needs

.Egypt occupies ranked 17 in the world in the field of aquaculture, and is considered a farm (Persen) of the largest farms where, up area of ​​2,000 acres, and there are downloaded and up to a thousand-acre area.In an investigation conducted by Al-Ahram newspaper Cairene this regard, Engineer Mohammed Massad latency Chairman of the General Authority said the Fish Resources Development: "It has been proven by experiments, and all the practices that the best alternatives realistic and most are fish, for a number of reasons, summed up in the absence of a problem land, where the water area that can be exploited in Egypt, more than twice the agricultural area which is yet to be exploited, and can be expanded both horizontally and vertically, and can be used for irrigation and drainage networks, it is known that the fish is desirable from all classes of people, especially commodity and its features is the free of cholesterol and contain a high amount of protein and the variety of brands, making it a popular commodity is required. "Despite Egypt's success in fish farming in fresh water during the stage twenty years lasted almost, is the stage of quantitative culture which plans to produce the largest possible amount of popular fish acceptable to the Egyptian people, but we are, according to the year 200 evaluated, we still import some 193 thousand tons of fish, and we export about 700 tons, we export with a value of $ 45 million and import worth $ 400 million, if the commercial Valmizan fish not on our side, while Morocco, Mauritania, Oman's exports of fish considered the most important economic resources.For aquaculture, Egypt produces 340 thousand tons, and about 46% of the production from fish farms, and we get 54% of the rest of the natural water sources.It is worth mentioning that the sea bass and bream, a marine fish, are more fish in Egypt scalability for export, accounting for 90% of Egypt's exports of fish and succeed in completely normal fish farms.It was Egypt's production of fish farms has increased from 1,000 tons in 1970 to 400 thousand tons until the end of 2003, and is a produce farm 50% of the total production of fish size in Egypt, and became restricted to import some luxury brands of offshore production Kalfelah and jumbo shrimp ..And some countries rely on fish farming constant source of national income, such as the State of Ecuador, where shrimp production is second only to oil and earned her $ 3.93 billion, according to statistics Food and Agriculture Organization FAO in 1998.


                                                                           



                                                                 

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