![]() ![]() Jobs in the blue economy, such as fisheries and tourism, are particularly important for low-income households, and losing them would cause many fishers and tourism employees to fall into poverty, comparable to disruptions caused by COVID-19. ![]() Other sectors, such as fisheries, directly or indirectly also critically depend on the intactness of coastal and marine areas. For example, the tourism sector and connected industries contributed 14.2% of GDP in 2018 in Tunisia, providing jobs to more than two million people, and around 18.6% of GDP and 16.4% of employment in Morocco in 2017. The majority of the population in the Maghreb lives by the coast or close to it, and many people depend on the coast for their livelihoods. The importance of a healthy coastline and beaches for livelihoods in the Maghreb regionĬoastal areas in the Maghreb are essential not only to sustain biodiversity (the Mediterranean basin is among the world’s 25 most important biodiversity hotspots) but also to develop the blue economy to generate wealth, create jobs and sustain livelihoods. By Martin Philipp Heger, Lukas Vashold, and Jesko Hentschel ![]()
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