I was impressed, yes, with Iceland, because there the central government is involved in funding. The trouble is they have a lot fewer harbours than we do. I thought they had a very good mechanism for planning and allocating funds. I was quite impressed that the federal government in Iceland provided capital funding--but up to a certain percentage. I think it was a sliding scale.
In countries that I expected to be similar to Canada, like Norway and Sweden, because they have long coastlines, and they do have lots of small fishing harbours and wharves and moorings, the central government isn't involved.
Maine is more recreationally oriented. Oregon is more recreational/trade oriented. Japan is hard to get any information from at all.