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This protected marine area is an enclave of great value for the presence of populations of whales, dolphins and loggerhead
The Valley escarpment Mazarrón submarines are closer to becoming a 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, explained today the Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, in Mazarrón, which was accompanied by the Mayor Alicia Jimenez.
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 Mediterranean Marine Region, next to the marina area of ​​Cap Martinet, coral Roquetas de 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 and adopt corresponding measures of protection and management plans that permit the maintenance and favorable conservation of these natural habitats and species of interest that inhabit them, and ensure maximum protection of natural values, enhance the conservation status and tracking.
Furthermore, rules regulating uses and activities and the development of the management plan contemplated.
The ministerial order provides for the formalization of an agreement between the Ministry and the Autonomous Region of Murcia to coordinate actions to be carried out in this and other areas.
Valles protected marine space escarpment Mazarrón submarines, formerly Marine Environment has a physiographic and oceanographic features that cause significant productivity and biodiversity and make it a marine enclave of great value.
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 in the migration periods, sperm whales and fin whales.
It is relevant to the list, common and bottlenose dolphins area.
He is also a special area of ​​interest for the loggerhead turtle and has reefs (island tailings, Cabo Cope and rocky bottoms in front of La Union) and maerl beds.
The escarpment is a stunning underwater wall more than 2,600 meters deep, considered part of the set of escarpments 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 towards Cabo de Palos (Cartagena).
It reaches a maximum width of 88.16 km and a width of 26.85 km, covering an area of ​​154,080 hectares.
Source: CARM
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