Marine Aquaculture Development in Egypt
Italian Egyptian Debt SWAP Program
Technical Report
Marine Aquaculture Development in Egypt
Business Models for Marine Hatcheries
June17.2013, Alexandria, Egypt.
Introduction
This document is intended at providing potential investors with a clear estimation of the economical feasibility of the installation and management of marine fish hatcheries. At the same time this document is structured as a tool that could be easily adapted by potential investors for elaborating a specific Business Plans to be presented to commercial and financial partners and to elaborate a clear articulation of their investment project.
For a more exhaustive comprehension, this document should be read in strict connections with the other documents realized by MADE project, notably the Road Map for the Development of Marine aquaculture, that provides a clear vision of the state, constraints and perspectives of the marine aquaculture in the country, the best management practices for hatcheries, and the Technical Manual for hatcheries where a potential investor could find a set of practices and protocols for optimizing the technical, and thus economical, performance of the hatcheries.
According to the aim of the MADE Project we will focalize on the two main marine species of interest of the project: seabass and gilthead seabream. At the same time most of the element introduced and a relevant part of the costs are easily adaptable to the aquaculture of other marine species that could be of interest for the Country (such as Meagers or Flathead Mullets).
Moreover hatching different species would increase the possibilities of optimizing the use of the structures of the hatchery all over the year. At the same time the MADE Report Main and new candidate species factsheet provides a clear vision of the potential new species for aquaculture whose development at a commercial level would require for the development of hatchery production.
A short market analysis will contextualize the business models into the Egyptian marine aquaculture subsector, highlighting the interconnections with the potential partners and competitors, in order to define the operational strategies, Since the hatcheries carry out business to business activities, this analysis will be mainly focused on the existing economic actors rather than focusing on the consumers.
The strategies set will lead us to the actual analysis of the profitability of the hatchery investment by estimating the costs and potential revenues of the hatchery activity. The elaboration of the results will let us provide some basic performance indicators that could facilitate of the results will let us provide some basic performance indicators that could facilitate the potential investor in his investment decision.
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