page_title: Fishing in Egypt
section_title: Revenues
hierarchical_section_title: Fishing in Egypt / Revenues
caption_attribution_description: roseta - une bonne peche
context_page_description: Fishing in Egypt includes every form of fishing as a hobby or professional nowadays. In Egypt, fishing is really developed and the country is considered as one of the best fishing destinations in the world.
context_section_description: Egypt's fishing industry produced 1,337,778 tonnes of fish in 2010. 334,947 tonnes were sold to the home market, while 5,175 tonnes were sold to the domestic market.
  Fishing revenue is divided into two sub sectors, the aquaculture sector and the capture sector. The aquaculture sector produced 705,500 and the capture sector produced 374,000 tonnes in 2009. In total, 1,079,500 tonnes of fish were sold. Egypt's fishing industry production has increased in the last decades. This is mainly due to an increase of the aquaculture sector. The aquaculture sector is the largest sector and accounts for almost 65% of the supply. 99% of production comes from privately owned farms. Tilapia and Mullets are the two most common species in the aquaculture sector.
  The development of the aquaculture sector is the main reason for the significant rise in revenues in the last decades. The first modern semi-intensive commercial farm was opened in 1961 by the Egyptian government. The government introduced a specific development program in order to develop the aquaculture sector in the end of the 1970s. The annual aquaculture revenues grew from 17,000 tonnes to 45,000 tonnes by the beginning of 1980s.
caption: A good catch
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