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Topic 3: INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT
and to increase controls on recreational and industrial fisheries; to promote further
scientific researches in this poorly studied area; to develop collaboration between
small-scale fishery and tourism sectors, in order to introduce tourists to fishing activity
in the field and to allow the reintroduction of disused fishing methods (e.g. bottom
traps); to promote underexploited ichthyic products and local gastronomic traditions
through the creation of structures and events focusing to divulge fishery culture.
Conclusions - The analyses carried out allowed to define a general picture of the
coastal area of Sciacca and of its human activities, in primis artisanal fishery. This
study allowed to devise some management proposals for a sustainable use of resources
in this coastal area analysing the strength points and the limits identified. The
overcoming of such limits is a long and integrated process which needs the
involvement of local administration, stakeholders, research institutes and surveillance
bodies. Despite the described crisis, the artisanal fishery shows some strengths for a
desirable reclamation, such as a high percentage of fishermen younger than 40 years
old and many elements belonging to fishery culture that could be recovered, improved
and employed as tourist and cultural attraction. The good climatic conditions for most
of the year could favour the development of fishing tourism activities from spring to
fall, contributing to deseasonalize tourist flux, currently concentrated in July-August.
Suggestions aiming at the recovery of the small-scale fishery and at the valorisation of
its traditions, may contribute to increase the social and economical prosperity of coastal
communities and to maintain the culture biodiversity. In this context, fishing
communities are really reservoirs of knowledge, experience and understanding of local
fisheries that cannot be replicated in any other form (Symes & Phillipson, 2009).
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This study was funded by Region of Sicily, Fishery Department of Cooperation Commerce
Handicraft and Fishery Assessor ship, within of Regional Operative Plan 2000-2006 connected to the
European Fishery Fund.
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