The Marine and Fisheries Environmental Service (SAMIP) of the Cabo de San Antonio Marine Reserve helped, in August 2013, to dissolve a gas oil slick that was produced by the spills of a merchant ship that worked on our coast. The spot, with an area of 18.500 square meters, was sighted off the coast of Les Rotes and the rapid action of the troops prevented its spread and helped its dissolution.
These data were explained by coach SAMIP, Toni Martínez and the sailor Luis Pérez Guillem, daily fishing in the boat charged with the surveillance of the marine reserve in the balance sheet of the actions carried out by the service in recent months .
When they received notice of the sighting of the big spot a sea rescue boat joined the vessel monitoring service and got the deviation of the spot and its subsequent dissolution, without causing any damage to marine wildlife reserve .
Environmental Marine and Fisheries Service received a total of eleven warnings for possible pollutants discharged during 2014,. In all cases, the service moved to the area, as in happened a few weeks ago at the end of Les Rotes, when an accumulation of phytoplankton alerted neighbors.
Phytoplankton but not only draws attention in this regard. The concentration of the small jellyfish Velella velella He also alerted the neighbors for its similarity to an oil slick when a large bank, which also has a very strong odor is sighted.
The protection of the biodiversity of the Dénia coast is one of the functions of the Marine and Fisheries Environmental Service, which has opened new lines of work aimed at the protection, dissemination, awareness and promotion of the Dianense coast and those marine protected areas that They are in front of our coasts.
