An Economic Study of the most Important Factors Affecting the Production and Consumption of Fish in Egypt

Egypt recently seeks for pursuing a food policy that aims to raise the protein nutrition level depending on the animal source. The State's plans aim to achieve the self-sufficiency of food goods as much as possible, and increase the rates of production fill the gap between the production and consumption. Due to the increasing rate of population growth, the development of fish production is considered one of the main pillars that help to face the food gap and decrease the imports.                                                                                             
Thus, the research focused on the factors affecting which affect the fish production in Egypt. It showed that the most important factors  are preparation of mechanic fishing boats ( inverse relationship ) a moral statistically but does not agree with economic logic, the number of local fishermen and consumption of fish)has a direct correlation)where this elements together official on the 59% of the changes in production. The research discussed the most important factors affecting domestic consumption of fish and found that the most important factors affecting are the number of  population, the average of fish retail price , and the average of red meat retail price all these factors are responsible for 95 % of the changes in local consumption during the study period.
Therefore, the research recommended that work should be done to solve the problems that hinder the development of natural sources, which suffers from a lot of technical and legislative environmental problems. In addition to that the production of the fishing boats should be increased. On the other hand, developing fishing craft, training fishermen and providing them with advanced tools for fishing, increasing the investments  concerning the fish wealth sector, development  the cooperative marketing and providing the suitable means of transport to  keep maintain the fish and establishing centers of fish close to its sources are definitely necessary.