Benefits Of Maritime Heritage

Introduction Maritime heritage is a wide legacy that consists of not only physical resources, such as prehistoric archaeological resource and historic shipwrecks but also oral histories, archival documents, native cultures, ecological knowledge of indigenous cultures and traditional seafaring. Maritime heritage resources are unlike living resources and nonrenewable, so it is particularly considerable that protect these important links to the past (“Why Maritime Heritage?”, n.d.). Prehistoric sites, naval battlefields and shipwrecks are preserved by sanctuaries (“Maritime Heritage”, n.d.). They are places to probe, disclose and appreciate a country's maritime cultural heritage. That heritage is an inheritance of thousands of years of settlement,

The primary effects of the MPAs on the selected Ecosystem Services (ES) of fisheries, tourism, human settlement, coastal protection against floods and bequest value were evaluated. Economic benefits and costs of the MPAs were valued for all local stakeholders as well as for national and international stakeholders. In addition, MPA effects on the stock and flow of ES values (“Is it worth investing in coral reefs? Results from an assessment of MPA economic benefits in Fiji and Vanuatu”,

These investments, however, resulted in benefits to the tune of 110,000 to 530,000 US$ per year and square kilometer of protected area. It means that MPAs bring a lot of funds around the area. In MPA of Fiji's Koralevu-I-Wai yields indispensable tourism benefits that almost 50% of the visitors to the Coral Coast, the snorkel or dive trips were a regular complementary activity during their stay, or were the primary reason to come to the resort. In the Navakavu villages of Fiji that is proximity to urban centres. The MPAs had impacts principal on coastal protection against floods and reflected the importance of coral reefs and other coastal ecosystems for human protection in urban centres. In Vanuatu, the economic impact of the MPAs was calculated at US$ 250,000 per year per square kilometer of MPA, which is equivalent to an average economic value of benefits of US$ 77,000 per year per MPA. The MPA’s greatest impact in Vanuatu was on Tourism that is almost 60% of the total. The great majority of the visitors in the zone either took part in marine activities such as snorkeling or diving activities. One of their by-side activities during their stay (6 tourists in 10) or as their main reason to travel (1 tourist in 10) (“Is it worth investing in coral reefs? Results from an assessment of MPA economic benefits in Fiji and Vanuatu”,