Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Retrofitting of Fish Landing Sites
A Climate-Resilient Marine Spatial Plan will guide the protection and sustainable use of the Virgin Islands’ marine environment. It will define key zones for conservation, fisheries, recreation, and development—supporting climate resilience while enabling a balanced blue economy.
Introduction
Fish landing sites are the bridge between fishers and the sea and form a critical part of the fisheries infrastructure. Most fish landing sites consist of basic or ageing infrastructure, not designed for climate change impacts, such as higher intensity storm surge and sea level rise.
The Impact
This comprehensive needs assessment will determine, detail design and cost required upgrades to fish landing sites across the Territory to ensure a system of functional and climate-resilient fish landing sites.
The project scope will include retrofits to priority fish landing sites based on the assessment outputs. The expected outcome is a more climate resilient fisheries sector with upgraded landing sites doubling as safe harbours and supporting return to business-as-usual following severe weather events.
The Problem
Destroyed docks after a hurricane
The Solution
Example fishing port facility
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