FAO Fisheries Department. Search Email us FAO Fishery Development Planning Service Integration of fisheries into coastal area management. FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries. Rome, FAO. 1996. Fish stocks also rely on primary productivity in the coastal area as an important part of the food chain.
Coastal aquaculture is also heavily dependent on the coastal area for space and resources.
This dependency of the marine fisheries sector on the coastal area makes it particularly susceptible to activities which result in coastal environmental change which may have major impacts on the sector. At the same time, the fisheries sector can affect other coastal activities, e.g., through competition for space. The need is apparent, therefore, to consider the development and management of the fisheries sector within the context of coastal area management and development planning, i.e., in the context of the protection and management of the resources, the environment and the activities of the coastal area. These Guidelines are provided as explanatory material to Article 10 in the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. Article 10 concerns the Integration of Fisheries into Coastal Management in order to assist in achieving the rational use of scarce coastal resources.