AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE COSTS OF FISHING AND ITS PROFITABILITY MARGINS FOR THE SHANSHOLA CRAFT OPERATING IN THE PORT OF ELARISH

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Dept. Econ. and Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

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The research aims to shed light on the current status of fish production in North Sinai, as well as study the costs of fishing in terms of the relative importance of cost items and the statistical measurement of cost functions, as well as the study of profitability indicators and measures of economic efficiency. The study depended on the descriptive and quantitative analysis of the economic variables used in the measurement, the use of standard analysis methods and estimation of the general time trend in its linear form, as well as estimation of the regression relations of production costs in its cubism form. The study relied on two main sources, the first of which was the General Authority for Fisheries Development and the second was the preliminary data obtained through a random sample.

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