How many persons are employed at the CZMU?

There are twenty-six (26) staff members at the CZMU, inclusive of technical and administrative personnel.

Glossary of Terms

Station, control

A point on the ground whose horizontal or vertical location is used as a basis for obtaining locations of other points.

Littoral Zone

In beach terminology, an indefinite zone extending seaward from the shoreline to just beyond the breaker zone.

Current, Littoral

Any current in the littoral zone caused primarily by wave action; e.g., longshore current, rip current.

Port

A place where vessels may discharge or receive cargo; it may be the entire harbour including its approaches and anchorages, or only the commercial part of a harbour where the quays, wharves, facilities for transfer of cargo, docks, and repair shops are situated. Protection may be provided by natural or artificial features.

Offshore Breakwater

A breakwater built towards the seaward limit of the littoral zone, parallel (or nearly parallel) to the shore.

Coral Reef

A coral-algal mound or ridge of in-place coral colonies and skeletal fragments, carbonate sand, and organically-secreted calcium carbonate. A coral reef is built up around a wave-resistant framework, usually of older coral colonies.

Extensive limestone structures built largely by corals. They occur primarily in shallow tropical and provide habitat for a large variety of other marine life forms.

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