FI:DP/GRE/85/002 Field Document 10 December 1987

GREECE
ECONOMICS OF AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A report prepared for the project
Development of Marine and Inland Aquaculture in Greece

by

D. Bailly
Consultant

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1987

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Terms of Reference

1.2 Background Information

2. AQUACULTURE ECONOMICS AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE GREEK ECONOMY

2.1 Aquaculture Economics

2.2 The Greek Economy and the Contribution of Aquaculture

2.3 The Investors in Aquaculture

3. FINANCING OF AQUACULTURE IN GREECE

3.1 General

3.2 Description of Grants and Procedures

3.3 Description of Loans, Insurance and Procedures

3.4 Summary

4. A SECTOR ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF GREEK AQUACULTURE

4.1 A Basic Framework for a Sector Analysis in Aquaculture

4.2 Lagoon Management and Culture

4.3 Earth Ponds Polyculture

4.4 Trout Culture

4.5 Eel Culture

4.6 Shellfish Culture

4.7 Marine Fish Intensive Culture

5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 Conclusions

5.2 Main Recommendations

References

Appendix 1: Present and projected production of aquaculture in Greece

Appendix 2: Average, minimum and maximum prices of the main marine fishes by area in 1986

Appendix 3: Economic data on mussel cultivation

Appendix 4: Economic data for a 2 million fry and 300 t fattening capacity sea bream and sea bass farm

Appendix 5: On-growing of sea bass and sea bream in Greece

Appendix 6: Eel culture

Appendix 7: Trout culture