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Abstract The Gulf of Suez is relatively shallow and extends about 314 km south-southeast from Port Suez in the North (Lat. 29° 56` N) to Shadwan Island in the South (Lat. 27° 36` N). Its width varies between 20 and 40 km and its depth throughout its axis is fairly constant with a mean depth of 45 m. The aim of the present work is to determine the structure of juvenile fish community inhabiting coastal shallow water of North Gulf of Suez to describe species composition, size structure of juvenile fishes and time of recruitment in the target areas to assess the important of ecological habitats for economically important fish species and study the food and feeding habits of dominant juvenile fish species. The by-catch of about 3-5 Kg per haul was collected seasonally by experimental beach seine operating in Eion Moussa, Ras Sader, and Ain Sokhna coasts, North Suez Gulf, Egypt during the period from autumn 2017 to summer 2018 was analyzed. The by-catch amount 3-5 Kg per haul in Eion Moussa composed of fin fish species (84.3%) and shrimp (15.7%). About 17 fin fish species belonged to 14 families composed of two categories 13 juvenile of the commercially important species (30.6 %) and 4 low valued species (69.4%). Leiognathus berbis, Leiognathus elongates, Encrasicholina punctifer and Istigobius ornatus dominated the assemblage of 17 species and contributed 69.37% of all sampled fishes. |