مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

Environmental pollution today is considered one of the serious scourges that the world suffers from, which has negatively affected human life in its many forms, which has led to a growing wave of awareness regarding the adoption of economic mechanisms and tools aimed at reducing environmental pollution, in order to achieve sustainable development of marine resources and not harm them. With the ability of future generations to meet their needs, it is no secret to anyone the importance of marine life to the environment and society, and that it is an important part of human life, as well as the importance of fish wealth in the local self-sufficiency of countries, and it is also one of the sources of income and economic and investment growth for countries. We note through this study that Fish production from natural fisheries in Libya developed from 48 thousand tons at the end of 2010 to 62.5 thousand tons at the end of 2011, with a total contribution amounting to 2.3% of the total fish production in the Maghreb. Then fish production took a sharp declining trend, declining to 3.5 thousand tons by the end of 2019, with a contribution rate that did not exceed 0.17% of the total fish production in the Maghreb. This sharp decline is mainly linked to the mismanagement of the fishing sector in Libya due to the lack of specialized competencies managing this sector on the one hand, and on the other hand the pollutants that Libyan beaches suffer from from pouring sewage into the capital alone. There are than 27 pouring nozzle . Wastewater is pouring into the sea, where more than one million cubic meters of sewage is pumped, and the eastern beaches of the Libyan coast suffer from significant chemical, petroleum and organic pollution. Keywords: marine environment, marine pollution, Libyan economy, fish wealth