Research by experts from the Kotor Institute of Marine Biology (IBMK), conducted in 2017, showed that biodiversity in the sea of Porto Montenegro is gradually improving after ten years since the cessation of ship repair activities at the place where the Tivat Arsenal used to function.
Nevertheless, some types of phytoplankton are still present, which are indicators of a nutrient-rich ecosystem (which, as a rule, causes sewage to spill into the sea). IBMK experts determined that 33 species of fish spawn in the Porto Montenegro water area, while 36 species of bottom plants and 75 species of bottom animals (sponges, arthropods, crustaceans, molluscs, worms, echinoderms and others) live along the jetties of the marina.
"In the studied locations, the diversity of vegetation species increases, and their quantity, so that we have areas that are very densely overgrown, both with zoobetic organisms and phytobenthic algae", it is written in the Information on the state of the environment in Tivat for 2017, which the councilors in the local considered by the parliament at the last session of the SO.
The survey of fish communities was carried out along the docks of the marina, and the most numerous species in the catch was spar with 62 percent of the total catch. The tench was represented by 17, the mullet by seven, and the flounder, rock mullet, fin mullet and labra with three percent of the catch each.
In addition to what scientists have stated, laymen also notice with the naked eye that there are more and more fish along the piers of Porto Montenegro because fishing is prohibited within the marine waters. Thus, from the coast of the marina, large flocks of sea bream can be observed here, as well as a significant number of sea bass, sea bream and other fish.
On several occasions in the past months, sea turtles occasionally swam between yachts tied up at the piers of Porto Montenegro.
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