Abstract
In order to promote coastal fishing and improve the residential environments of fishing regions, it is imperative not only to raise improvement standards for individual fishing ports and villages, but also to establish functional roles and relationships between fishing ports which are interdependent and mutually beneficial.
The functional roles of fishing ports must also be developed on a regionwide basis. This document proposes planning methods for exploring the direction of fishing port improvements on a regional scale by regarding each prefecture as a regional improvement zone. The roles of individual fishing ports in each zone are also clarified.
