The Berket Ghalioun Fish Farmبركة غليون

Berket Ghalioun is the largest fish farm in the Middle East, sprawling across thousands of feddans on the coast of Kafr El-Sheikh. It is effectively an integrated aquaculture city, with well over a thousand fish and shrimp ponds, hatcheries producing fingerlings and shrimp larvae, feed plants, ice factories, and fish-processing and packaging facilities — everything needed to raise, harvest, and supply seafood at enormous scale, all in one place.

The farm produces large quantities of fish and shrimp — including substantial shrimp output that had previously relied on imports. By supplying a major share of domestic seafood, it strengthens Egypt's food security and helps keep fish, a key affordable protein, available to the population. Egypt is already the leading aquaculture producer in Africa, and projects like Berket Ghalioun have reinforced that position.

Inaugurated as a flagship of Egypt's food-security drive, Berket Ghalioun showed how large-scale, modern aquaculture can complement crop farming in feeding the nation. With its integrated hatcheries, farms, and factories, it serves as a model for further fish-farming projects around the country. It stands alongside the great land-reclamation schemes as part of Egypt's broad push to feed its people from its own land and waters.

• What it is: the largest fish farm in the Middle East.
• Arabic name: بركة غليون (Berket Ghalioun).
• Location: the coast of Kafr El-Sheikh.
• Includes: 1,000+ ponds, hatcheries, feed and processing plants.
• Produces: large quantities of fish and shrimp.
• Purpose: boosting seafood self-sufficiency and food security.

Sources include recent official and industry reports on Egyptian agriculture (current as of 2026). Figures are approximate and several projects are still expanding.