The COAST WATCHERS

Place: Aldea blanca, Aiguassera and Capri beaches
D
ate:
6th February 2004

Team: Noemí & Ana

                             Shore characteristics

Kind of shore:

 

Access:

 

  Cliff / Rock   X Easy for vehicle
  Breakwater / Concrete   X Easy on foot
X Crushed stone shore     Difficult or impossible
X Sand shore     Prohibited
  Muddy shore / Marsh      

 

 

 

 

 

The shore is surrounded by:

It arrives to the shore:

  Farms     A river
  Factories   X A gully
  Port     Some filtration
  Fields     A sewer
  Natural vegetation     A farming drain
X Detached houses     A lagoon

 

 

 

 

 

                                          Shore uses

X Fishing

 

That’s why it has been built…

Houses, benches, sand has been added from the mountains.

 

 

Shellfish fishing

 

 

Fishing farms

 

Salinas

 

Anchor boats

X

Nautical sports

X

Bathing zone

 

 

Rubbish dump

 

 

 

 

Living animals

Note which living animals found: crabs

 

 

 

Remainders coming
from natural origin

Remainders coming
from human activities

X

Sea weeds and sea grass

 

Rubble

 

Sepia bones

 

 

Tyres

 

Crab’s sloughs

 

X

Polystyrene (packing cases)

X

Laying of eggs

 

X

Tins

X

Shells

 

X

Pieces of wood

X

Dead animals

 

 

Ropes and nets

 

 

 

X

Plastic containers

 

 

 

 

Large metal objects

 

 

 

 

Pieces of cardboard

 

 

 

X

Pieces of glass

 

 

 

 

 


 

The shore is..

 

Clean (remainders from human activities are not visible)

X

Nearly clean (few remainders are visible)

 

Pretty dirty (A lot of remainders are visible)

 

Dirty (you can avoid walking on remainders from human activities)

 

 

What would you take out from the shoreline if you could?

The gully, the benches and the rubbish.

What would you add?

Nothing

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

Survey done by: Ana Valcarce Nogueiras and Noemí González Ramos.