This work aims to study the importance of mangrove area as nursery grounds for the
juvenile of reef fishes in the Red Sea. Juvenile fishes were collected during three seasons in 2010 from
three mangrove swamps by a beach seine net. The net was dragged on the bottom for 100 m three
times. A total of 269 juvenile fishes were collected, representing 21 species in 19 families. The most
abundant species formed about 86% of all collected fishes. Nine species were collected for the first
time from mangrove areas in the Egyptian Red Sea. Most of the collected fishes are economically
important fishes. Moreover, eleven families were belonging to coral reef fishes. The highest species
richness value was recorded in Hamata mangroves. This finding showed that how mangroves could
support the life history of many coral reef fishes