REQUIREMENTS OF FISH FARM OWNERS IN FAYOUM GOVERNORATE

The study aimed to: identify the socio-economics characteristics of the respondents, Recognize the delivered training courses in the field of aquaculture, Identify the most important services provided by the actors involved in aquaculture, identify the best ways that respondents prefer for fish marketing, and identify the most important problems facing respondents in this field and their suggestions to solve it, study was conducted in fayoum governorate where the two largest districts according to the number of fish farms were selected, (Ibshway and Senouras), Two villages were selected from each district according to the same criteria, as the sample reached to 150 respondents Aquestionnaire by interview. The most important findings could be summarized as follows: 76.7% of the respondents attend courses combared with 23.3% did not attend training courses, and all respondents reported that the most important marketing channels were inside Fayoum governorate, and 78% of them indicated marketing fish product to wholesaler, and 90.6% indicated that the marketer is farm owner also (92.9%) of them pointed that the payment way is in credit finally, all respondents indicated that price of fish not fixed. 69.3% of the respondents indicated that they received extension services in this field, and the most important actors were: private sector(Fodder companies), and the General authority for fish resources development (GAFRD) as mention by 77.8%, 60.5% respectively. Finding also revealed that the most important problems facing respondent were: the most important problems facing respondent were: high price of feed (100%), absence of both fish extension role and governmental supervision (97.3%), water pollution(96%), absence of unions for fish farms owners (87.3%), and absence of extension farms (80%)