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ARCHIVED - Boat owners along the Costa Blanca will have fewer places to lay anchor
Measures aimed at protecting native seagrass in the Marina Alta will affect the number of places for private boats to moor
A new law in Alicante province aimed at protecting the protected seagrass in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea has been criticised by owners of yachts and private sailing boats for limiting the places where they can moor their vehicles.
The so-called Posidonia Law enacts a ban on anchoring on Posidonia oceanica, also known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, and means boats can only lay anchor on sand or be tied up on buoys, but the Marina Alta Nautical Tourism Association (ATNMA) has complained that there are only 100 buoys along the Denia-Calpe coastline for 4,000 pleasure boats to moor at.
President of ATNMA, Ricardo Burriel Mora, said, “From the sector we are totally in favour of the protection of Posidonia. What we are demanding is that the law should provide solutions so that nautical activity can continue. In the main anchoring points of the Marina Alta there is a great amount of Posidonia and there are practically no sandy bottoms, so the new law obliges [boats] to anchor on buoys. The question is that from Denia to Calp there are 4,000 moorings, but currently there are little more than 100 anchoring buoys”.
The association is due to have several meetings with town halls of municipalities along the whole Costa Blanca coastline to discuss the issue, and so far have found Denia Town Hall very receptive to listening to their appeals.
The Posidonia Law, which is being promoted by the Department of Environment, is currently in a consultation phase and is expected to be approved before the summer, with a new Special Posidonia Monitoring Service in Javea that will have a direct impact on nautical tourism activity, which is extremely popular in the area.
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