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Submarines Mazarrón escarpment valleys are closer to becoming Special Area of ​​Conservation (SAC) and marks the European Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment has approved the public consultation of the ministerial order to declare ZEC This space, with six more distributed throughout the country, as explained by the Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, accompanied by the Mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez, during the meeting of the Board of Council held Tuesday in Mazarrón.
The escarpment of Mazarrón was proposed by the Autonomous Region of Murcia, in compliance with the Habitats Directive, as Site of Community Importance (SCI) due to its wealth.
After receiving the approval of the Ministry, the European Commission included it as LIC of the Natura 2000 network in 2006, and later in the lists of LIC of the Mediterranean Sea region, next to the marina area of ​​Cap Martinet, coral Roquetas Mar, El Saladillo-Punta de Baños, seabed in the Bay of Estepona, seabed of Punta Entinas-Sabinar and seabed of Almeria.
The ministerial order now aims to declare these SCI SAC marine environment by adopting corresponding measures of conservation and management plans that permit the maintenance and favorable conservation of these natural habitats and interesting species that inhabit them, ensuring maximum protection natural values, enhance the conservation status and tracking.
Also, rules regulating uses and activities and the development of the management plan contemplated.
The protected marine area of ​​the escarpment valleys Mazarrón submarines, formerly Marine Environment has a physiographic and oceanographic features that cause significant productivity and marine biodiversity making it a place of great worth.
It is a space that acts as a migratory corridor and feeding area of ​​great importance for various species of whales, turtles and seabirds.
It has large populations of pilot whales, Risso, occasional copies of Cuvier's beaked whale, and at the time of migration of sperm whales and common rorcuar.
It is an important area for the striped dolphin, common dolphin and the bottlenose dolphin.
It is also an area of ​​special interest for the loggerhead turtle and has reefs (island tailings, Cope and rocky bottoms out against the Union).
The escarpment is a stunning underwater wall more than 2,600 meters deep, considered part of the set of escarpments des continuously arriving from Cabo de Gata to the Balearic Promontory.
This space includes the period between the marine waters south of the island of Fraile (Eagles) to 11.79 km in the direction from Cape Palos (Cartagena).
It reaches a maximum width of 88.16 km and a width of 26.85 km, covering an area of ​​154,080 ha.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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