Yesterday, Josep Lliteres, the Coastal Environmental Quality director, said that the eco-mooring buoys have been strategically located at nine places in the Balearic coastline in order to reduce the damage caused by anchors to the Posidonia meadow grass on the seabed. These meadows provide stability to the sandy shorelines of the island. He said that by mid-August this year, the number of sailors using the eco-buoys will be more than that of the total number of users in 2007. He also said that from the beginning of the president’s term in office, another such launch had been planned to facilitate the control of flotillas of the mooring buoys far enough from the threatened meadows Posidonia grass.
Among the targets of Environment ministry for this year is increase in the number of people using these buoys by 25 percent. Lliteres also said that these conservative goals could be achieved, with four more months to go. He said that around 5’000 to 6’000 more users weren’t recorded because controls finishes by 5.30 pm every day and the sailors prefer to anchor up elsewhere during the night and move on in the morning.
Tags: Coastal Resorts, coastal waters, Harbour, Mallorca, Mallorca Beaches, Marina, mooring buoys, natural coastline, sea flora, South Coast