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Marine: Cleaner Seas report

Contents

The life of our seas

Natural processes

• Fish and shellfish
• Benthos and plankton
• Life on the seabed (benthos)
• Plankton
• Birds
• Mammals
• Seals
• Dolphins

What we know about the seas

• North Sea
• Celtic Seas
• Wider Atlantic

Threats to life at sea

• Shipping
• Fisheries

Inputs from land

• What do we put into the seas?
  • North Sea inputs
  • The Channel
  • The Celtic Seas
• Waste entering the sea
  • Industrial waste
  • Chemicals
  • Dangerous substances
  • Radioactive substances
  • Sewage and fertilisers
• Dumping
• Offshore minerals
• Managing our coastal zones
• Atmospheric effects

Organising to protect the seas

• Who does what in the UK?
• International co-operation
• Europe

Useful contacts

Page last modified: 01 March 2005
Page published: 21 September 1988

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