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The Oualidia lagoon provides different ecosystem services of socio-economic and ecological interest. These services and goods are important to the local population living there, particularly aquaculture, fishing, and agricultural activities. However, the increase in human activities around such ecosystems has adversely influenced their environmental quality and caused their natural resource depletion. In this context, the main ecosystem services and goods were analyzed; this lagoon provides and defines the main pressures on such an ecosystem. The analysis highlights the need to build a balance between the economic activity growth in this coastal system and the lagoon environment to sustain its natural resource development and avoid their depletion and losses.