// FOR YACHTSMEN //

• Anchor sites inside the park are located in bays appropriate for such purpose: Magrovica, Podugopolje, Pasjak, Jaz, Kruševica, Mir, Tripuljak, Buhaj, Pod Katina.
• Buoys for the mooring of vessels are located in bays: Mir, Tripuljak, Krusevica and Kučinmul.
• The mooring of buoys is free of charge.
• Mooring during the day is recommended.
• This institution does not assume responsibility for the vessel during mooring.
• The main shipping route from the central channel towards the open sea leads through the passage of Mala Proversa, which is marked with maritime signalization (red and green lights).
• Zones for sport and recreation on the water:
  Zone 1: Gozdenjak bay, Mala Kamenišna bay and Vela Kamenišna bay
  Zone 2: Buhaj bay, Bok bay (Pećina) and Strižna bay

Warnings!

• Anchoring at your own risk!
• Speedboating is not allowed near the coast and through the passage!
• The speed limit of the vessel is up to 10 knots within the Cape Pod Poljica!
• The speed limit of the vessel is up to 5 knots within anchorages!
• The maximum depth in the passage Mala Proversa is 4,3 m!
• The maximum depth in the passage Vela Proversa is 2,2 m!
• Walk the trails at your own risk!
• Do not approach the edge of the rocks!

CAULERPA – THE ENEMY OF LIFE IN THE ADRIATIC

The sea-flowering plant Posidonia oceanica, also known as see grass, is an endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea. It grows almost beneath sea level and down to depths of 50 meters on sand bottoms where it grows in thick submerged meadows. The Posidonia meadows are the largest “stockyards” of biological diversity in the Adriatic Sea. Many sorts of fish and crabs live, spawn, feed themselves and find shelter in these meadows, many of which are of important economic importance. Also, the Posedonia meadows protect the coastline from erosion with a thick network of roots and rhizomes that prevent ablation of the sediment from the seabed and also enrich the sea water and the sediment with oxygen. Due to various human activities, the Posidonia meadows are highly endangered and are increasingly disappearing. Besides this species there are three other species of sea-flowering plants that live in the Adriatic: Cymodocea nodosa, Zostera noltii and Zostera marina.

• The algae’s Caulerpa taxifolia and Caulerpa racemosa are also one of the causes of endangerment of the Posidonia meadows.
• These algae are allochthonous species, which means that the Adriatic is not their natural habitat
• They are invasive species that reproduce, spread and grow over existing autochthon organisms on the seabed, which leads to their extinction.
• The consequence of the spread by the Cualerpa is a drastic reduce of the biodiversity of the seabed
• In the Adriatic, they reproduce asexually by breaking of a part of an algae and their re-growing into another algae.

They are transferred by boat anchors, nets and sea currents!!!

The settlments of the Posidonia and other sea-flowering plants are highly endangered by anchoring of yachtsmen!!!

The anchors cut the rhizomes and thus permanently damage the settlments (the rhizome grows at a rate of 1 cm/year)!!!

YACHTSMEN !!!
Please check your anchors and if you find pieces of these algae remove them before you throw your anchor back into the sea. By no means do you return algae fragments back into the sea, because new algae will evolve from them!!! In case you should find Caluerpa, it is your obligation to notify about the site of your findings the technicians or supervisors of the Park services or the laboratory for phytobentos at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, on the following telephone number: 021/408-004!!!