Fish trade and the constitution of its prices in Algeria: An empirical approach

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International Journal of Development Research

Fish trade and the constitution of its prices in Algeria: An empirical approach

Abstract: 

The fisheries sector in Algeria plays different economic and social roles. But the food role it plays is the main one of this sector. Despite all the potential provided by the public authorities to develop this sector and provide the consumer with a qualitative and cheap product; the consumer still suffers from expensive prices of fish. In this context, this paper tries, through an empirical and analytic study, to shed light on the fish trade and to analyse the constitution of fish prices in Algeria.Our research defends the following thesis: “On the contrary to other products, the absence of organisation of the commercialisation chain of fish trade and the absence of facilities of fish commercialisation, on the one hand, and the absence of an institutional approach for the fisheries in Algeria, on the other hand, are all factors that make the prices of fish not submitted to economic calculations, and not depending only on the law of supply and demand.”. So, this study is aimed at guiding public intervention in the field of organising the activity of fisheries, setting supervising tools and organising the fish market. It is also aimed at searching mechanisms and procedure necessary to improve the supply of local market with various fisheries products with reasonable price.

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