UK marine science and monitoring
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
Chapter 1
General
introduction
Chapter 2
Geography
and physical oceanography
2.1 Geography
2.2 Physical oceanography2.2.1 The Irish Sea
2.2.2 Bristol Channel
Chapter 3
Human
activities
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 reclamation3.12.1 Current and proposed coastal management initiatives
3.12.2 Offshore and coastal power generation3.13 Military activities
3.14 Conservation3.14.1 Ecological conservation
3.14.2 Archaeology
Chapter 4
Marine
chemistry
4.1 Marine inputs
4.1.1 Direct inputs
4.1.2 Riverine inputs
4.1.3 Petroleum oil inputs
4.1.4 Marine litter4.2 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 mammals4.3 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
Chapter 5
Marine
biology
5.2.1 Introduction
5.2.2 Description of benthic communities5.4.1 Irish Sea
5.4.2 Bristol Channel5.5 Mammals
5.5.1 Irish Sea
5.6 Fish diseases
5.7 Biological effects of contaminants5.7.1 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 mussels5.8.1 Bathing water quality
5.8.2 Microbiological quality of shellfish
5.8.3 Marine biotoxins
Chapter 6
Overall
assessment
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
Page last modified: 11 April 2006
Page published: 27 July 2000