Department and the municipality of Xàbia expedite licenses diving in the marine reserve

El town hall de Xábia and the Department of the Environment finalize a collaboration agreement to expedite the diving licenses that diving clubs usually present to be able to dive in the Marine Reserve of the Cape San Antonio.

With this agreement, the xicotetions may be presented at the Office of Citizen (OAC). The OAC sealed receipt may be sent electronically to the Department to resolve the request within two or three days. This measure is taken while waiting to be able to reform the Decree of Uses of the Marine Reserve and, through a computer application, that the clubs themselves can manage a quota system.

There was also a meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Marine Reserve of Cabo de San Antonio. In the same, chaired by Mayor of Xàbia, José ChulviAnd the Director General of Fisheries, Roger Llanes, were also staff present the Department of Environment, older patterns of the brotherhoods of Javea and Denia, responsible for the Coast Guard, Toni Martínez, Councilwoman Environment Xàbia , Doris Courcelles, and his counterpart from Dénia, Josep Crespo.

It was announced that it will be studied to increase the beaconing in the waters that delimit the marine reserve with a double objective: on the one hand to clearly delimit its surface and thus avoid erroneous interpretations and on the other to favor that the boats do not have to drop the anchor. For this, the collaboration of the diving clubs of Xàbia and Dénia and the sailors of both brotherhoods will be available. It was also agreed to indicate in the anchorage buoys their preferred use by recreational diving professionals. This, however, will not prevent individuals from using them.

On the other hand, both from the Conselleria and from the Xàbia City Council, the possibility of redefining the management model of the Reserve's surveillance was raised. Although it is up to the autonomous entity to carry it out, at this time it is done with the participation of the City Council of Dénia. The mayor of Xàbia, José Chulvi, explained that, “Xàbia is willing to participate with the necessary human and financial means, but only if there is a serious and consensual project. We, in addition to the Reserve, have 25 kilometers of coastline and 68 km² of municipal area to monitor and protect. For that we have equipped ourselves with a jet ski and a boat as well as 12 new police officers, as well as forestry brigades and Civil Protection personnel, but we can not reach everything without the help of the Department of the Environment".

Finally, from Department it noted that the campaign against poaching driven by the city of Xàbia and also involves restaurateurs and divers "It is an example of how they do things and we will export to other localities and agencies”. It should be noted that both the Coast Guard service and diving professionals have coincided in the decrease of illegal activities in this field. The access control in the Canal de la Fontana and the closure during the summer months of the ramp of the granadella.