Nador lagoon is also the part of the basin that has undergone
the most dramatic alterations due to the rapid change in
demographic trends, the new socioeconomic conditions prevail-
ing (which favor a higher consumption of natural resources) as
well as new technologies including transport (new roads, new
types of ship and therefore new harbors, etc.). The resident
population has almost doubled over the last 33 years, exceeding
at present 728,634 inhabitants (RGPH 2004) compared to
480,517 inhabitants in 1971.