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Engaging blue fishing ports in marine spatial planning
Key findings of regional workshops
5 April 2023
Last update:7 May 2024
Engaging blue fishing ports in marine spatial planning: key findings of regional workshops
2022
Publication co-financed by the Government of Sweden.

Ports are strategic hubs for marine spatial planning (MSP) due to the variety of stakeholders who rely on port infrastructure. Spatial planning can be undertaken from a national and multisectoral perspective such as MSP, to local project development (e.g. a fishing port). There is a need to improve the alignment of sectoral planning with MSP.
This joint IOC-UNESCO and FAO publication is the result of a series of regional workshops in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and East Asia and the Pacific, which were organized in the context of the 鈥淛oint Roadmap to accelerate Maritime/Marine Spatial Planning processes worldwide (MSProadmap)鈥 and the 鈥淏lue Ports Initiative鈥.