Moorings to be reduced

[mike_dublin]

https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2021/09/22/89847/bay-pollensa-mooring.html

Number of moorings to be slashed from 350 to 150

The Pollensa council welcomed plans by the Balearic Port Authority to slash the number of yacht moorings in the Bay of Pollensa.

Under plans which have been drawn up the number of yachts and pleasure craft which will be able to moor up in the Bay will fall from the 300 at the moment to just 150 by next summer.
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se full article on the MDB website

 

[Rockape]

Apparently the swing moorings cause a lot of damage to the seabed, so this is good news for the sea life in the bay.

There has been proposals from sectors of the nautical community to build new concrete moorings to solve this issue, (around the Pine Walk) but not many people would want to see that. Besides, unless there are restrictions in place....and actually enforced, then the new moorings would fill up and the swing moorings would still be in place.

I wonder how they will enforce this scheme anyway, you can't exactly install signage saying the bay is full!

 

[mike_dublin]

There's a longer write up from Andrew Ede in the MDB about the boat overcrowding in the bay of PP -
https://www.majorcadailybulletin.co.../89975/boat-overcrowding-puerto-pollensa.html