The COAST WATCHERS

Place:   Hortets beach                          Date: 6th February 2004

Team: Sandra & Yaiza

                                 Shore characteristics

Kind of shore:

 

Access:

 

  Cliff / Rock   X Easy for vehicle
  Breakwater / Concrete     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     A gully
  Port     Some filtration
  Fields   X A sewer
X Natural vegetation     A farming drain
X   Houses     A lagoon

 

 

 

 

 

                                         Shore uses

X Fishing

 

That’s why it has been built…

 

 

 

Shellfish fishing

 

 

Fishing farms

 

Salinas

 

Anchor boats

X

Nautical sports

X

Bathing zone

 

 

Rubbish dump

 

 

 

 

Living animals

Note which living animals found:

 

 

 

Remainders coming
from natural origin

Remainders coming
from human activities

X

Sea weeds and sea grass

X

Rubble

 

Sepia bones

 

 

Tyres

X

Crab’s sloughs

 

 

Polystyrene (packing cases)

 

Laying of eggs

 

X

Tins

X

Shells

 

 

Pieces of wood

X

Dead animals

 

 

Ropes and nets

 

 

 

X

Plastic containers

 

 

 

 

Large metal objects

 

 

 

X

Pieces of cardboard

 

 

 

X

Pieces of glass

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

The shore is...

 

Clean (remainders from human activities are not visible)

 

Nearly clean (few remainders are visible)

X

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 rubbish.

                     

 

What would you add?

Paper bins, sand.

     

 

Survey done by: Sandra Sabariego Bort and Yaiza Garrido Pérez