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According to interviewees, MSP will help reduce conflicts for their respective sectors (26%),
rationalize the exploitation of maritime resources (17%), optimise costs, and expenses (16%),
contribute to resource sustainability (9%), offer better development (5%), and organization (4%)
of activities, and clarify the prerogatives, and missions of each sector, and actor, to avoid
attribution overlaps. Other benefits of MSP include:
- More respect of regulations
- Better management of
overcrowded spaces
- Alignment to international
standards, and demonstrate the
respect of international
obligations
- Eliminate intersectoral barriers
- Reduce risks, and threats
(Stability)
- Standardise actors' collaboration
- Sustainably increase economic
values, and job availability
- Implementation, and monitoring
of sectoral strategies
- Meet the challenge of food
security
- Mutualise costs
- Power recognition for
associations
 Do you think that the establishment of MSP in Algeria will
have a negative impact on your activity?
Thirteen percent of interviewees did not answer this question
(mostly those who first heard of existence of MSP on the
interviews). Only 11 % of think MSP will indeed affect their
activities negatively at first (in the short term). Most of them are
fisheries actors thinking that MSP will limit fishing area
especially small trades, and that operators of the sector will be the
first impacted.
 In your opinion, who should be in charge of setting up, and monitoring MSP in Algeria?
Figure 52: Negative impacts of
MSP.
Figure 53: Who should be in charge of implementing MSP in Algeria?