Marine protected areas and absurd regulations. It’s time for a change!
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Among the many comments you have written to us about the problem of excessive Italian bureaucracy, there is one that particularly struck us, and it concerns an increasingly felt issue, that of the difficulty of access to marine protected areas.
Here is what Marcello writes: Fortunately, I already fly a foreign flag. However, I would like to introduce another topic that no one ever discusses. Protected marine parks. It is absurd that there are areas that no one can enjoy(except politicians and recommended people on duty), such as Gorgona. And it is absurd for everyone to make their own rules (at cinque terre to access certain areas you have to be a resident, ditto at giglio, at portofino only for boats less than 10 meters). Everyone gets their own stretch of sea forbidden to third parties!!! There needs to be national legislation that applies to all marine protected areas, which should be organized like those in France: open to all with buoys placed not attached to rocks (like Portofino, where if there is undertow you go to rocks) and enough for everyone. And with strict rules to be enforced (at 5 terre the controllers are then the ones who go fishing in the park !).
We agree with our reader across the board. A real problem, this of the lack of a single regulation throughout Italy. Do you remember what had happened, for example, last summer to our contributor Carlo Rimini at the Maddalena Park, where it seems difficult even to get into compliance if you are sailing on a sailboat?
So, here is our call to Renzi and his government to finally decide to take care of the problem: It is stupid not to make the most of an asset such as our marine protected areas (always respecting the environment, of course). A single, understandable and un-quibbling regulation would also ensure revenue that could be used precisely for park management. There is a need to create a virtuous circle, in short.
AND YOU, DO YOU AGREE WITH OUR PROPOSAL?
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