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Burullus Lake is an ecological system that supplies a variety of ecosystem services (ES) to the community. The value of these services depends on change in land use and land cover LU/LC and socioeconomic factors as fish production. Supervised classification was applied showing four classes; water, vegetation, fishfarm and services lands. Markov and CA-Markov were applied for LU/LC transition and prediction. Results reveal an increase in water bodies due to recent development in Burullus Lake. Removal the floating plants reflects the decrease in vegetation. Area of fishfarm was increased from 2009 to 2013 that increase the value of ecosystem services in the study area in this period. These changes in LU/LC had a positive impact on ESV due to the conversion among different classes. ESV varied significantly in Burullus Lake. Increased value of ecosystem provides higher opportunities for recreation and ecotourism. Fish production of Lake Burullus has increased from 2009 to 2018 with an increase of 18,000 ton by about 34%, and this increase in may be the result of adding additional areas to Lake Burullus during this period as a result of purification operations as a main factor. Also, the lowest parts of exploitation were observed at the central parts directed to the fish farms areas. While the most exploited areas are towards the eastern parts to the area of El-Boughaz. It is indicated more that areas of jetties sites and population centers are more exploited to the lakes shores. The present study suggests that governments should take awareness of ESV through studying some ecological conditions.