As Montenegro is becoming a favourite destination for nautical tourism which is characterised by a fast growth, optimal standards to decrease negative impacts on the environment have not been developed. This refers to the construction planning stage (in the sense of applying optimal approaches to plan accepting capacity of the marine waters zone in relation to the number of berths), as well as to definition of technical standards when environmental impact assessment is prepared as part of technical documentation development, and the execution of works.
A lack of berths functionally linked to the existing marinas and ports is also evident. For this reason it often happens that ships and yachts are anchored in the coastal and open sea, on arbitrarily chosen locations, thus endangering the state of marine ecosystem through mechanical destruction of underwater habitats with anchors and through waste disposal. The practice also undermines safety of maritime navigation.
With the aim of preparing the basis for prevention, mitigation and elimination of impacts of nautical tourism, particularly with regard to impacts of marinas on marine ecosystems, conditions should be created and capacities strengthened for introducing sustainable nautical tourism practices.
Activities
1. Prepare state and needs assessment for the application of green boating including:
−− Assessment of the existing state with the aim to establish deficiencies of the existing regulations and environmental standards that should be observed in the planning stage for marinas and their construction and operation; it is necessary to include an overview of regulations and state of the existing marinas (establish problematic technical solutions, good and poor practices in maintaining marinas and ships, waste management,...);
−− Overview of good practice examples;
−− Definition of guidelines for constructing new marinas;
−− Determination of a proposal of measures and specific solutions to improve operations in the existing marinas;
−− Determination of proposals for changing the existing regulations.
2. Based on the results of the assessment, implement educational programmes for the staff and marina users.
As a good practice example, the green boating concept should be implemented in remediating one of the existing marinas or when constructing a new one.
Pilot project
Contribute to development of positive attitude towards green nautical tourism through pilot example at a selected marina; the pilot will demonstrate positive aspects of the approach that has application of optimal standards for mitigation of negative impacts on marine environment at its core.
Activities In the framework of project that will demonstrate application of the green boating concept, the following should be done:
1. Optimal site chosen marina under construction or an operational one;
2. In accordance with the state and needs assessment for applying the green boating concept and in line with examples of good practices, new measures and concrete solutions for improving marina operation should be determined and applied for the established problematic technical solutions and poor practices;
3. Prepare operational instructions and educational materials to be applied in further operational regime of the marina.