The Realization of Fishermen about Some Problems on the Development of Fish Production in Lake Edco Baharia Government

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Represent fisheries in Egypt an important sector in the national economy, a source of employment and study the Egyptian reality of Fisheries is clear that there is a decrease in National production compared to an increase in the import of fish from abroad and estimated gap 250 thousand of tons in spite that  Egypt enjoyed large area of water.
The Lake Edco one of the sources of important fish Besides decrease in the area of ​​the lake there decrease in the production of the lake and main reason of many problems that help it causing a major problem in the development of the lake is the search to stand on the realization of these fishermen to these problems so that to find the solutions through the following objectives:
1. Identify some of the characteristics of the fishermen surveyed across area Edco.
2. Determine the level of awareness of the problems of some of the respondents to the development of fish production in Lake Edco and their relative importance.
3. Extraction of the guidance role expected to address these problems in the study area.
The most comprehensive research of all fishermen Lake Edco and 5,000 fisherman, according to the records of the cooperative societies of fishermen have been taking a random sample by 4.5% reaching 225 fisherman, 29 were eliminated for pretest. Initial data was collected by personal interviews and used the percentages range and arithmetic mean and Deviation standard in data analysis and resulted in the search results that there are 24 independent variable affects the distribution of fishermen respondents, for example, it turns out that 25% of fishermen under the age of 37 in any of the young people and 47 % of whom are under the age of 46 years were also made clear that the social situation of fishermen 93% Married, it turned out that 97% of the total fishermen a full-time profession of fishing and that the source of the experience of fishermen up to 99% of relatives, neighbors and personal experience, as evidenced by the findings that 77% of the fishermen respondents have the will to continue the profession of fishing, as well 50% fishermen have realize their problems, both in the development of fish production or environmental problems and legal problems.

 
 

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