The Economic Reform Policies have been applied in Egyptian
economy since 1986 .The main objective ot this study is to investigate the
response of sector of fish to economic reform policies . TWO stage least
squares method was used to estimate the potential effects of economic
reform period 1980 -2000 . The indicator show that implementing economic
reform policies have significant positive Impact on sector offish .the main
result are:
1 -The most important factor which affect the domestic production of fish are
numbers of fishing boats and change in technology if both are to increase
by 10 % the domestic production of fish would increase 7.5 % ,6.6 %
respectively
2 - The most important factors which affect the average retail prices of fish
are national consumption and domestic production of fish if the national
consumption increase by 10 % the average retail prices of fish would
increase by 16.4 % but the increasing of domestic production by 10 % the
average retail prices of fish would decrease 5 % respectively.
3 - The most important factor which affect the fish import are national
consumption , fish Import prices and domestic production of fish increase
by 10 % to the national consumption of fish the import would increase 15.2
% but increasing 10 % to the fish import prices and domestic production
would decrease the fish import 2.6 % ,2.3 % respectively
4- The most important factors which affect the national the national
consumption of fish are number of population ,individual income .average
retail prices of fish and red meat increase by 10 % to the number of
population and the individual income , the national consumption would
increase 8.1 % ,6 % but increasing by 10 % to the average relail prices of
fish ,poultry and red meat would decrease the national consumption 1.6 %
,1.4 % , 1.3 % respectively
5- It is anticipated that domestic production of fish will increase 2.8 % for the
period 2002 • 2005 . The average retail prices for fish would anticipated
increase 5.2 % for the period 2002 • 2005 . The fish import would be
anticipated to increase 2.22 % for the period 2002 -2005 . The national
consumption of fish would be anticipated to increase 3.42 % for the
period 2002 - 2005
6- Accordingly the study recommends that more efforts should be directed
toward increasing the domestic production of fish this is ought to be done
through anticipated quantity