ABSTRACT
The underlying goal and objective of aquaculture projects in the minds of most American scientists is to produce a high protein product as one of several strategies designed to reduce the world food crisis. Aquaculture products frequently are highly perishable. Aquaculture technology should be designed carefully to fit specific cultural, economic, ecological constraints, permitting maximum economic and food returns. Thus, the nutritional promise of aqua-culture is frequently abandoned to the economic realities of food production. The decades of the 1950s and 1960s saw the development and evolution of idealism as the world food crisis was challenged and confronted through the promise of the Green Revolution. In reality the bedouins would not work in either agriculture or fisheries, and Nile valley and Nile delta farmers would not work the proposed agricultural lands since they feared bedouin reprisal.
