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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Affairs and Policy
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1518897
This article is part of the Research Topic Challenges and Solutions in Forecasting and Decision-Making in Marine Economy and Management View all 22 articles
Research on Mariculture Suitability Assessment Based on GIS --A Case Study of Sea Area in Lianyungang
Provisionally accepted- 1 National Marine Data and Information Service, China Oceanic Information Network, Tianjin, China
- 2 Key Laboratory of Ocean Space Resource Management Technology, Marine Academy of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
This study aims to scientifically identify marine aquaculture zones suitable for marine spatial planning by constructing a comprehensive suitability assessment system, incorporating both natural and social factors. The weights of the evaluation indicators were determined using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Taking the Lianyungang sea area as a case study, GIS technology was employed to analyze marine aquaculture suitability based on the proposed index system. The results categorized the Lianyungang sea area into aquaculture zones with varying suitability levels: excellent, good, average, poor, and very poor. Based on these findings, the study further classified the area into three types of management zones: key, moderate, and limited mariculture zones.
Keywords: mariculture, Suitability assessment, Lianyungang, marine spatial planning, GIS
Received: 29 Oct 2024; Accepted: 28 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gao, Ding, An and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jinzhu Gao, National Marine Data and Information Service, China Oceanic Information Network, Tianjin, China
Xiao Yang, National Marine Data and Information Service, China Oceanic Information Network, Tianjin, China
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