San Diego, CA - Port District Commercial Fisheries Revitalization Plan

San Diego Port district - Commercial fisheries plan

LWC was retained by the Port of San Diego and a Core Committee, made up of local stakeholders, to lead a comprehensive economic analysis, focusing on site conditions at Driscoll’s Wharf and Tuna Harbor. LWC is the lead firm on a team that includes: marine structural engineer (Moffatt, Nichol – Blaylock); civil engineer/landscape architect (Project Design Consultants); traffic engineer (Linscott, Law & Greenspan), geotechnical engineer (TerraCosta Consulting Group), architect (KMA Architects & Engineers); and marine biology and terrestrial biology consultants (Merkel and Associates and Helix Environmental Planning).

The $500,000 Coastal Conservancy funded project culminates with an Implementation Plan that through extensive personal interviews, field observations, and review of archival data identifies the most pressing local needs and provides timelines, budgets, roles and responsibilities, funding options, and metrics for successful implementation.

The economic analysis includes a marine user industry overview, comparisons of economic indicators to State and national trends, infrastructure conditions and constraints, demand and distribution chain analysis, earning trends, import and export trends, case studies of other ports, potential management entities, and regulations and their impacts. Emphasis was placed on contacting and engaging as much of the local community as possible. Extensive interviews were also conducted with local distributors/processors, restaurants, and retailers. Over 150 hours was spent on one-on-one interviews and provided the foundation of the background existing conditions report.

Click here to link to a description of the project and copy of the Plan on the California Coastal Conservancy website.