تجارة الأسماك و ملحقاتها في مصر في العصر العثماني

الملخص EN

This research was exposed to a very accurate topic, which is the trade of fish and its accessories in Egypt in the ottoman era, which is one of the most accurate and sensitive periods in history, given the quality of the source material on which the research depends in the first place, which is the archival documentary material.

"customs" and the books of treasury funds and the books of the counties of calculation, beside the wallets and records of the various sharia courts in Cairo and the region.

the study showed the different types of fish and the most important industries based on them, such as salting, drying or frying, which was the popular meal at the time, and the extent of the population's interaction with that popular trade, whether internally through fish markets or fisheries circles and agencies.

the research also touched on the foreign fish trade “exports-imports” and the demand of the ottoman sultan and Berber countries (Tunisia Algeria) for Egyptian fish, or the import of caviar from Europe and Asia, as well as sin el fil and al-Busir (fish poison) from the Arabian Peninsula and India.

the Egyptian ports, “al-Iskalia” played a prominent role, whether on the red sea or the Mediterranean, at the level of exports and imports, and estimating the various customs duties and controlling them in the books and records of the ports.