Ireland's Environment: a millennium report. Chapter 10 - Estuarine and coastal waters

Publication Year

2000

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

The sea waters around Ireland are generally clean and the main environmental issue relating to them is the impact of fishing activity on both target and non-target species. There is concern about some stocks of cod, hake, saithe, plaice and sole. There is concern too that the by-catch mortality of harbour porpoises in the Celtic Sea hake fishery may be greater than can be sustained by the population. The discharges from the British Nuclear Fuels reprocessing plant at Sellafield continue to result in contamination of the Irish marine environment, but exposure of humans is not considered to pose a significant health risk.

Document History

This document is part of a larger document, Irelands Environment: a millennium report, which has been split into parts for ease of use.

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