Now that we have some 330,000-pleasure boats in Japan, their berthing is posing an extensive problem. This figure is nearly twice the size of our commercial fishing fleet in commission, and it is not realistic to construct new places to accommodate them all. The only proper course of action is to make more use of local harbors that are scattered along our long coastlines, fishing as well as commercial, as is already done for example in Sweden, where the number of pleasure boats per person is about 30 times larger than ours. Most our harbors still have enough space for such berthing and new realistic policy for such action is what is really required.