Egypt: 5.4% increase in the amount of fish production in 2019

Today, Wednesday, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics issued the annual bulletin of fish production statistics in 2019. Among the most important indicators, the total amount of fish production reached 2 million tons in 2019 compared to 1.9 million tons in 2018, an increase of 5.4%. Fish farms ranked first in terms of production It reached 79.7%, followed by lake production with 10.8%, marine water production with 4.9%, fresh water with 3.8%, and finally rice fields with 0.8% of the total production. Fish production in fish farms reached 1.62 million tons in 2019 compared to 1.54 million tons in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over the previous year, due to the increase in the number of fish farms. The group of bony fish (tilapia, mullet, sea bream, seabass, musa, coral...) is ranked first in fish production with a rate of 98.0%, followed by other species and crustaceans (shrimp, crab,..) with 0.8% each, followed by Lungs (snails and oysters) by 0.2%, ...