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Autor/es | Terrados, Jorge ; Diedrich, Amy ; Arroyo, Nina Larissa ; Balaguer, Pau |
Matèries en català: | Posidònia -- Illes Balears ; Ciències Naturals. |
Matèries en castellà: | Ciencias naturales ; Posidoniáceas -- Baleares (Comunidad Autónoma). |
Matèries en anglès: | Posidonia -- Spain -- Balearic Islands ; Natural History. |
Abstract: | Recreational boating is an important economic activity in the Mediterranean Sea that often leads to disturbance by anchoring of Posidonia oceanica meadows, an endemic seagrass that is a critical component of shallow coastal ecosystems. A selfadministered survey of recreational boaters that anchor in a popular mooring site (Cala Blava) in the coast of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) was carried out during the summer season of 2011 to assess their preferences regarding the number of boats anchoring at the cove and the distance between them, their willingness to pay for the use of mooring buoys and their perception of the negative effects that recreational boating may have on the marine environment. Four hundred and twenty five surveys were obtained over a period of 23 days (11 weekend days, 14 week days) with a response rate of 95 %. The number of boats anchored was higher during weekends (30 ± 13 boats) than during the rest of the week (15 ± 5 boats). Most of the respondents considered that both the number of anchored boats and distance between them were adequate, and they were satisfied with their visit to Cala Blava. Anchor damage was identified as the main impact caused in the marine environment by recreational boating. Support for the use of mooring buoys was high (72 %) and 58 % of boaters were willing to pay a fee for buoy use. The most widely accepted fee was 5 Euros per day of use. These results suggest that the public is well aware of the damage caused by anchoring on P. oceanica meadows and that environmental regulation that would reduce this harm through the use of mooring buoys would have wide support from the main users, who would be even willing to pay for the service. This is a bright prospect for the conservation of this valuable and fragile coastal ecosystem.
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Font: | Bolletí de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears 2012, n. 55, pp. 149-161 |
Identificador: | 0212-260X |
Tipus de document: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Avís legal: | All rights reserved ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |