Mr. Izzat H. Feidi received his M.A. in economics from the University of Oklahoma. He worked for several years in the private fishing industry in Kuwait before arriving at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN in 1969. He retired from his position as FAO’s Chief of the Fish Utilization and Marketing Service in the year 2000. Since then Mr. Feidi has worked as Fisheries Development consultant, and is currently involved in the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT). During the period of employment with FAO, over eighty published and unpublished studies