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improving water supply conditions, ensuring environmental protection and enabling
small water retention as well as in terms of flood control measures in agricultural
and forest areas [3].
4.6.3 Leisure, Recreation, Nature Protection
The recreational significance of water bodies in Poland can be considered in terms of
possibilities for organising leisure activities and engaging in sports: sailing, canoeing,
fishing, powerboating, etc. Inland water bodies are intermediate or final destinations
for tourist migrations, and their significance is frequently considered in terms of sightseeing, landscape architecture, environmental protection, etc. The development of
tourism and recreation around water bodies stimulates the establishment of catering
and accommodation, tourist facilities and those related to tourist traffic as well as
transport infrastructure [48].
Sailing is one of the most common pastimes associated with artificial water bodies
in Poland. Various types of equipment with sails can be used for this purpose, and
thus there is e.g. yachting, windsurfing and iceboating. Such water bodies can be
used for kayaking, including longer kayaking trips.
Amateur fishing in accordance with legal regulations and the rules determined by
fishing associations is also a common pastime which can be pursued on the shores
of water bodies at any time of the year.
Water bodies are often used for other recreational purposes: they provide bathing
beaches, venues for sports events (e.g. the Malta Reservoir in Pozna´ n), diving facilities (e.g. the Koparki Reservoir in Jaworzno), venues for powerboat racing or amateur
powerboating (e.g. the Jeziorsko Reservoir) and venues for lakeside recreation with
the use of facilities such as cable skiing systems (Fig. 4.13) as well as providing
so-called silent zones.
4.6.4 Breeding of Fish and Other Aquatic Organisms
The breeding of fish, and occasionally also of other aquatic organisms (e.g. molluscs,
crustaceans, edible algae) takes place in breeding ponds (this is referred to as aquaculture). These facilities may operate separately or in clusters (Fig. 4.14). Breeding
ponds are generally characterised by high water fertility levels and peculiar water
management methods, which consist in filling their basins in spring and emptying
them in autumn. In aquaculture, a number of hydraulic structures operate which are
typical of hydrological facilities of this type.
Aquaculture most often involves the inland breeding and farming of salmonid
fish (e.g. trout, salmon, grayling); ponds for cyprinid and similar fish, in which e.g.
carp, pike, zander, crucian carp, tench and roach are bred and farmed; so-called
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improving water supply conditions, ensuring environmental protection and enabling
small water retention as well as in terms of flood control measures in agricultural
and forest areas [3].
4.6.3 Leisure, Recreation, Nature Protection
The recreational significance of water bodies in Poland can be considered in terms of
possibilities for organising leisure activities and engaging in sports: sailing, canoeing,
fishing, powerboating, etc. Inland water bodies are intermediate or final destinations
for tourist migrations, and their significance is frequently considered in terms of sightseeing, landscape architecture, environmental protection, etc. The development of
tourism and recreation around water bodies stimulates the establishment of catering
and accommodation, tourist facilities and those related to tourist traffic as well as
transport infrastructure [48].
Sailing is one of the most common pastimes associated with artificial water bodies
in Poland. Various types of equipment with sails can be used for this purpose, and
thus there is e.g. yachting, windsurfing and iceboating. Such water bodies can be
used for kayaking, including longer kayaking trips.
Amateur fishing in accordance with legal regulations and the rules determined by
fishing associations is also a common pastime which can be pursued on the shores
of water bodies at any time of the year.
Water bodies are often used for other recreational purposes: they provide bathing
beaches, venues for sports events (e.g. the Malta Reservoir in Pozna´ n), diving facilities (e.g. the Koparki Reservoir in Jaworzno), venues for powerboat racing or amateur
powerboating (e.g. the Jeziorsko Reservoir) and venues for lakeside recreation with
the use of facilities such as cable skiing systems (Fig. 4.13) as well as providing
so-called silent zones.
4.6.4 Breeding of Fish and Other Aquatic Organisms
The breeding of fish, and occasionally also of other aquatic organisms (e.g. molluscs,
crustaceans, edible algae) takes place in breeding ponds (this is referred to as aquaculture). These facilities may operate separately or in clusters (Fig. 4.14). Breeding
ponds are generally characterised by high water fertility levels and peculiar water
management methods, which consist in filling their basins in spring and emptying
them in autumn. In aquaculture, a number of hydraulic structures operate which are
typical of hydrological facilities of this type.
Aquaculture most often involves the inland breeding and farming of salmonid
fish (e.g. trout, salmon, grayling); ponds for cyprinid and similar fish, in which e.g.
carp, pike, zander, crucian carp, tench and roach are bred and farmed; so-called