Abstract
Governance-style fisheries public policy, which is conducted by a variety of participants as well as the government authorities concerned and fisheries cooperative association, is necessary for the sound development of fisheries industry and revitalization of fishing villages. As visions are indispensable to governance-style policy, the Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport prepared and published "Hokkaido Marine Vision 21", which shows the fisheries and fishing villages of the future. "Regional Marine Visions", which are designed to realize the Marine Vision 21, have been developed and implemented. Based on the analysis of released regional marine visions, the authors have proposed the methods for evaluating and upgrading the original visions and verified their usefulness. In addition, the authors have studied consensus building process and approach with rationality and fairness regarding to regional marine visions.
