How to avoid damaging posidonia at anchor

Above all, before knowing how to avoid damaging posidonia when anchoring, it is necessary to be informed about its importance.

Posidonia is an essential plant for the correct progress of life in the Mediterranean. It is a plant that produces flowers and fruits, its leaves are renewed every year and its stem can live for approximately 50 years.

It is a plant that grows on a sandy bottom and can be found at a depth of between 1 and 40 metres.

Spain is the place with the most posidonia, together with the Balearic Islands. This plant can live up to approximately 100,000 years. It generates large amounts of oxygen, helps to clarify the water, tempers the waves, prevents erosion, helps to preserve crystal clear waters, captures CO₂, produces sand and is the habitat of many species.

Therefore, the first measure to be taken to avoid damaging it with the anchors and chains of boats is not to anchor in places where there is posidonia, as this is the main cause of the disappearance of this plant.

Another measure is to anchor in a buoy or to retrieve the anchor vertically to avoid dragging the posidonia meadows.

It is important to comply with these measures because Posidonia is fundamental to our ecosystem and is only found on the Mediterranean coast.