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Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt

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Title Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt
 
Creator Nhuong Tran
Long Chu
Chin Yee Chan
Peart, Jeffrey
Nasr-Allah, Ahmed M.
Charo-Karisa, Harrison
 
Subject aquaculture
fisheries
seed
water
Fish
feed
infectious disease
tax
 
Description Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in meeting the rising global demand for fish fuelled by economic and demographic growth. However, in many middle-income countries, aquaculture is constrained by rising labour costs, limited input supply, environmental concerns, and infectious diseases. In this paper, we developed a multi-species, multi-sector equilibrium model and applied it to the fishery sector of Egypt, a leading aquaculture producer in Africa, to examine these barriers. Projection results show that rising wage rates would slow down the growth of labour-intensive aquaculture compared to those that use relatively less labour. The demand for feed, seed inputs and water use for aquaculture would substantially increase. The results also show that disease outbreaks would possibly affect production sectors via output reduction and also consumers via increases in fish price. Our findings suggest that stabilising the prices of feed and seed, investments in disease control and input-use efficiency improvement technologies, including water use, are important while the overall effectiveness of tax instruments is modest. Though calibrated to Egypt, our approach can be applied to other middle-size national aquaculture industries.
 
Date 2022-12-01
2023-02-21T04:10:40Z
2023-02-21T04:10:40Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Nhuong Tran, Hoang Long Chu, Chin Yee Chan, Jeffrey Peart, Ahmed Nasr-Allah, Harrison Karisa. (1/12/2022). Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt. Marine Policy, 146.
0308-597X
1872-9460
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128796
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105333
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Marine Policy