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Top 10
In the opinion Marine Work Group Ireland, the top 10 ranked threats
to Ireland's marine environment, and maritime social and ecological
sustainability are:
1) Climate change
2) Unsustainable fisheries
3) Coastal development
4) Ineffective governance and management due to
lack of holistic thinking
5) Cumulative impacts of increasing (and forecast)
offshore development
6) Introduction and spread of non-native marine
organisms and diseases
7) Maritime transport
8) Oil pollution
9) Background pollution by hazardous substances,
microbes and nutrients
10) Radioactive contamination
What's New?
08-11-2006. Corepoint/CoastNet conference The EU Green
Paper on a future European Maritime Policy: The objectives, potential
implications and challenges, at the Marine Institute, Galway.
03-11-2006. Proposals to restructure the Irish fishing
industry to ensure its future survival are to be published within
a few weeks (RTÉ
News) … The Minister was commenting on a Canadian report,
which has predicted that all fish stocks will collapse by 2048
(Science
Magazine abstract).
01-08-2006. Marine Work Group Ireland website updated
and re-designed.
11-07-2006. UK government's energy review published: a
new generation of privately built and operated nuclear power stations
to be built. More >>
15/20-06-2006. International Whaling Commission annual
meeting sees Japan and Norway strengthen their efforts to overturn
the moratorium on commercial whaling. More
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07-06-2006. European Commission publishes Green Paper
Towards
a future Maritime Policy for the Union: A European vision for
the oceans and seas (pdf 260k) and launches major consultation
exercise. More
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23-05-2006. Irish government announces intention to formally
propose to the European Commission that four cold-water coral
reef sites located in the Porcupine Bank and Porcupine Seabight
be designated as Special Areas of Conservation under the EU Habitats
Directive. More
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04-04-2006. European Commission publishes a proposal for
a Council
Regulation concerning use of alien and locally absent species
in aquaculture, COM(2006)154 (pdf 219k) as part of its strategy
for the sustainable development of European aquaculture. More
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