Quality Status Report of the Marine and Coastal Areas of the Irish Sea and Bristol Channel 2000
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Contents
Irish
sea and Bristol Channel QSR Team
1.1 Background
and scope
2.1 Geography
2.2 Physical
oceanography
2.2.1 The
Irish Sea
2.2.2 Bristol
Channel
References
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Demography
3.3 Exploitation
of living resources
3.4 Mariculture
3.5 Agriculture
3.6 Sand
and gravel extraction
3.7 Dredging
and dumping
3.8 Offshore
oil and gas
3.9 Shipping
3.10 Coastal
industries
3.11 Tourism
and recreation
3.12 Coastal
protection and land reclamation
3.12.1 Current
and proposed coastal management initiatives
3.12.2 Offshore
and coastal power generation
3.13 Military
activities
3.14 Conservation
3.14.1 Ecological
conservation
3.14.2 Archaeology
References
4.1 Marine
inputs
4.1.1 Direct
inputs
4.1.2 Riverine
inputs
4.1.3 Petroleum
oil inputs
4.1.4 Marine
litter
4.2 Distribution
of contaminants
4.2.1 Spatial
and temporal distributions of chemical contaminants in seawater
4.2.2 Spatial
distribution of chemical contaminants in sediments
4.2.3 Spatial
and temporal distributions of chemical contaminants in fish and shellfish
4.2.4 Contaminants
in marine mammals
4.3 Nutrients
4.4 Radioactivity
4.5 Munitions
disposal in Beaufort’s Dyke
4.6 Impact
of SEA EMPRESS oil spill
4.7 Impacts
of sewage sludge disposal to sea
4.8 Impacts
of mariculture
References
5.1 Plankton
5.2 Benthos
5.2.1 Introduction
5.2.2 Description
of benthic communities
5.3 Fish
5.4 Birds
5.4.1 Irish
Sea
5.4.2 Bristol
Channel
5.5 Mammals
5.5.1 Irish
Sea
5.6 Fish
diseases
5.7 Biological
effects of contaminants
5.7.1 Water
quality
5.7.2 Sediment
quality
5.7.3 EROD
activity in fish
5.7.4 Endocrine
disruption
5.7.5 Endocrine
disruption in marine fish
5.7.6 Stress
effects and contaminant levels in Irish Sea mussels
5.8 Human
health aspects
5.8.1 Bathing
water quality
5.8.2 Microbiological
quality of shellfish
5.8.3 Marine
biotoxins
5.9 Impacts
of fishing
5.9.1 Impact
of fishing activities
References
6.1 Introduction
6.2.1 Issues
of high importance
6.2.2 Issues
of medium importance
6.2.3 Other
issues
Appendix I. Contributions
of various countries to the fish and shellfish landings in Region III
in 1995
Appendix II. Descriptions
of statutes for nature conservation
Appendix III. Standards/guidelines
for contaminants in fish and shellfish
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