MEDITERRANEAN AQUACULTURE
Sent: December 24, 1999
From: shérif sadek <sadek_egypt35@hotmail.com>
To: <katerina.gamrotova@rug.ac.be>
I am presenting a technical paper on the "Perspectives on
Mediterranean collecting wild fry. Status, potentials and constraints on
the development of aquaculture; with emphasis to the Egyptian case",
during the World Aquaculture Symposium, in Nice 2000 between the period
from 2-6 May, 2000.
I am looking to get any available information in any of the
Mediterranean countries:
- the last five years statistics concerning quantity of wild finfish
fry
and shrimp seeds collected from the nature, if possible by species
(size ??)
- number of collecting center in the wild.
- if the country gets any restriction on collecting the fry from the
wild. If yes, how the authority in the country will cover the need of
fry (hatchery, importing, etc).
Perspectives on Mediterranean collecting wild fry. Status, potentials
and constraints on the development of aquaculture, with emphasis to
the Egyptian case.
Sherif Sadek, Arab Aquaculture Consultants Office (address: see
below)
Abstract:
Along the Mediterranean coast, finfish and shrimp fry collecting are
still applied in some countries. An overview of the existing
collecting fry from the wild has been discussed. Also the paper will
present the impact of catching fry and juvenile of mullet, sea-bream, sea
bass, eel and Penaeus spp. on the Mediterranean fisheries. Pressure
from wild collecting fry in the Egyptian ecosystem will be taken as an
example for the potentials and constraints on the development of the
Egyptian aquaculture. During the years 1979-1980 and 1986-87, the
fry catch in the northern Nile delta varied from the low amount of about
59.6 million (1979-80) to the high amount of about 145.5 million
(1996-97), with an average of 35 % Mugil cephalus and 65 % of Liza ramada.
Also in 1997, Sparus auratus and Dicentrarchus labrax fry of 0.25 -1
g and fingerlings 1-10 g with a total of 3 million, were collected from
the wild. The development of marine culture in Egypt is now severely
inhibited by the shortage of finfish and not marine shrimp seeds.
Finally constraints and potentials of collecting wild fry in the
development of Mediterranean aquaculture have been discussed and
attempts are being made in order to secure the availability of seeds of
marine species through marine hatcheries in order to reduce the pressure
on natural waters.
Dr. Sherif SADEK
Arab Aquaculture Consultant Office (AACO)
6 Dr. Mahmoud Azmy Street
11211 Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
Tel and Fax: 202 - 340 13 11(Office)
Tel: 202 - 340 91 45 (Office)
Mobile: 01234 9 24 23
e-mail: sadek_egypt35@hotmail.com
Tel: 202 - 5 202 909 (Resid.)