Engaging blue fishing ports in marine spatial planning: key findings of regional workshops

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 “Joint Roadmap to accelerate Maritime/Marine Spatial Planning processes worldwide (MSProadmap)” and the “Blue Ports Initiative”.