The idea of ​​establishing a college for fish wealth appeared in Egypt in 1994 when the University Council approved the request of Prof. Dr. Samir Ibrahim Ghneim - former professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment in El-Arish (1989-1990) to establish a college for fish wealth and assign him to prepare the file for establishing the college in accordance with the requirements Supreme Council of Universities. I was honored to be part of the work team that did not hesitate to study all matters related to the feasibility of establishing a college specialized in the field of fisheries, which will be the first in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, with the help of all the expertise working in the field from academics, researchers, executives, experts in the specialization and stakeholders from interested beneficiaries and workers In the fish farm sector and the fishing sector. In addition to that, studying fishery programs in European, American and Asian universities and institutes. This resulted in success in obtaining a grant from JICA to establish the proposed college in cooperation with Tokyo Fisheries University. The study was submitted to the Supreme Council of Universities in 1995. The discussion between the Agricultural Studies Sector Committee and the working group for the establishment of the faculty at Suez Canal University continued from 1995 until 1995. The Republican decree was issued to establish the college in the Suez branch of the Suez Canal University in 2009. I am honored to be the first dean of the first fish wealth college in Egypt.

The College of Aquaculture and Marine Fisheries came as a development of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Faculty of Environmental Agro-Sciences in Al-Arish. The college was established according to the Prime Minister’s Decree No. 2016, and its internal regulations were established by the Minister of Higher Education’s Decree No. 1 year. The college represents the second link in the development of fisheries colleges in Egypt, in terms of study programs and curricula, taking advantage of all the strengths and weaknesses that emerged during the application of the regulations for a period of nearly ten years in the corresponding colleges at the universities of Suez, Kafr El Sheikh, Aswan.