Applying Remote sensing techniques in determining potential fishing zones for horse mackerel in the Red Sea, the Egyptian side

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1 National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences

2 woman's faculty, Ain Shams university

3 Fayoum university

4 national authority for remote sensing and space sciences

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This research studies potential fishing zones of horse mackerel in the Exclusive economic zone of the Red Sea, depending on MODIS AQUA satellite data such as Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR), Normalized Fluorescence Line Height (nFLH), Particulate Organic / inorganic Carbon (POC / PIC), Chlorophyll a (Chl-a) concentrations, and sea surface temperature (SST). The values of all preceding parameters were extracted from Modis data for the three locations that are already known to be shelters to the horse mackerel, these places are ( Al-Ataka, Hurgada, and Baranes. Then these extracted data were used in a model to search for places that have the same environmental characteristics in all parts of the Red Sea, to discover new suitable places for horse mackerel to aggregate in, such places are highly supposed for this fish to aggregate in.
This study concluded that besides the three sites for the horse mackerel, there are other sites that have the same characteristics, and it is highly predicted that they were containing this type of fish in their waters, and if these sites were used for fishing, then the production would increase from 7,053 tons to 102,181 tons as a result.

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Buhūth
Volume 2, Issue 9 - Serial Number 9
Social Sciences & Humanities
September 2022
Pages 228-251

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