Abstract
The multiple functions of the fishery industry and fishing villages are stipulated as follows: “The national government shall take necessary measures to ensure that the fishery industry and fishing villages will discharge diverse functions other than fishery product-supplying functions. ”The Fisheries Basic Plan was devised in the following year, that is, in 2002, based on this law. To improve aspects regarding multiple functions among the measures to be taken, the Plan stated that an understanding of the multiple functions should be promoted and that ideal measures intended to advance these functions should be examined. In the Fishing Ports and Grounds Improvement Law and the Long-Term Plan for Improvement of Fisheries Infrastructure, which were devised concurrently, it was specified that improvements to the infrastructure should be promoted to ensure that multifaceted functions would be served. In this study, how multiple functions and their surrounding elements are recognized in Hakodate City, a fishing area, were analyzed through the mutual relationships of respective elements.