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context, economic economic policies policies and environmental environmental conditions, planning goes from minimal guidelines to
strategic intervention: “Planning ning may be be orientative when when priority is given to the programming programming of
administration activities in in the short to medium medium term, term, often often with with the the purpose purpose of of demonstrating the
feasibility of projects which which could act act as as models models for the the private private sector. sector. Planning Planning may may llargely
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encouragement, as in in certain countries of the northern northern Mediterranean Mediterranean where where emphasis is is placed placed on
investment aid policies to favour favour certain certain production production methods methods and at the same time decrease short short-to short
medium-term term financial risks incurred by the businessmen. Planning can ultimately be considered as a
strategy when public action is based on the the combination of of programmes aimed aimed towards the the private
and public sectors in a sustainable perspective for the short and medium-long medium long term. The interest of
ensuring g that a a planning planning approach is adapted adapted to to the natural, natural, economic economic and and human human constrains constrains of the
country is furthermore confirmed a contrario by the problems of overinvestment or depletion of
natural resources, a situation found in certain Mediterranean countries” Paquotte et al. (1998) (1998).
Figure 14 - Aquaculture planning
Legend: Countries/r regions with specific Planning for aquaculture
Notes:
Countries without specific Planning for aquaculture
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Morocco is nowadays preparing a Planning for aquaculture. Montenegro is still in the procedure
of acceptance acceptance of of a a new new Law Law which which includes includes the the development development of Mariculture Development
Plan.Where Regional information is available it has been included in the map.
Forty percent of the countries surveyed declared to have some sort of specific ‘planning for
aquaculture’. . Under Under this we found found a a multiplicity of instruments that that could could be be organized organized in in a
continuum, ranging from from studies studies and and information information to to regulative regulative tools which pursue pursue the the development of
aquaculture in the long and medium-term.
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