ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE EGYPTIAN FOREIGN TRADE FOR FISH

Fish wealth in Egypt is one of the sources of national agricultural income, as well as a source of safe animal protein sources, which provides food needs internally and develops other industries beside it. Egypt enjoys vast areas of water bodies suitable for production and development of fish resources, which qualify it to be one of the largest producing countries Not only at the regional level, but also at the international level. Fisheries in Egypt occupy vast areas. These sources vary according to their nature. They include the sea, such as the Red and Mediterranean Sea, and lakes such as Manzala, The problem of research is inspite of the fact that Egypt enjoys its position on the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea and the existence of the Nile River and lakes, the quantity of fish produced does not sufficient for the needs of local consumption, which led to resorting to imports to bridge the food gap. The average  quantity of imports for the same period was estimated at 280.6 thousand tons. The average exports reached about 18.69 thousand tons for the same period. This means that there is a burden on the agricultural and national balance. The objective of the study is to study the development of national consumption And individual of the name The main results were that the relative importance of the value of exported fish during the period (20002015), where the first ranked fresh and salted fish with an engineering average of about 88.4% of the total The value of exports, while in the second place was for other varieties of fish with an average engineering of about 6.7% and the rest of the species (salmon, sardine, herring, tuna and sponge) ranked from third to seventh with an average of about 4.9% The study and the relative importance of the value of imported fish during the period 2000-2015. Toward 73.1% of the total value of imports, while the second place was fish tuna with an average of about 20.9%. The rest of the species (salmon, sardine, herring, crab, shrimp, caviar, anchovy, mackerel, and other varieties) With an average of about 6% of the total value of imports during the study period.