The marine spatial planning for Fiji takes the 12-nautical-mile sea area near the coast of Viti Levu as the study area, involving a coastline length of 689 kilometers and a marine area of 11,000 square kilometers. The core concept of the planning is to improve the capacity of marine management, protect the ecological environment and develop blue economy by coordinating the conflicts between human activities and environmental protection.
Fiji is located in the center of the southwest Pacific Ocean, where typhoons, ocean acidification and seawater warming pose great threats to the marine ecosystem. The lack of local marine spatial planning techniques and methods is not conducive to marine ecological and environmental protection, and also restricts the development of oceanic economy.