Subject Dredging

TRANSITIONAL AND COASTAL WATERS

The water area figures include inland, coastal, Great Lakes, and territorial waters.

Sharks inhabit all the coastal waters and estuarine habitats of Australia's coast.

This particularly applies, however, to our own coastal waters.

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Ōita's coastal waters contribute to a prosperous fishing industry.

The core elements of this Directive ensure the protection of surface water, coastal water, internal waste and ground water now and into the future.

In adopting the water directive on Wednesday 15 February, the European Parliament confirmed its wish to protect surface water, coastal wasters, inland waters and groundwater.

There is something wrong with a system that allows that off the coastal waters of Ireland.

It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.

It will cover rivers, lakes and coastal waters and will lead to an improvement of the aquatic environment.

85 of the waste water from the 120 major coastal towns is discharged into the sea without previous treatment.

Strictly speaking, the only element of the common fisheries policy which falls for review concerns access to waters.

This definition does not in any way affect the status of Western Sahara and its coastal waters.

The objective of this proposal for a directive, which dates back to 1997, is to put an end to the fragmentation of previous water legislation and protect surface water, coastal waters, inland waters and groundwater.

As in other war situations, this makes it possible to plunder fish stocks in the coastal waters to a greater extent than had been agreed.

It is this attitude which has turned the Irish Sea into one of the most radioactive seas in the world a situation where a fisherman in the Irish Sea is more likely to catch a nuclear submarine than he is to catch a mackerel.

Seabed disturbance in many coastal waters and deeper waters threatens biodiversity. This should be met with a forceful response.

Habitat Loggerhead sea turtles spend most of their lives in the open ocean and in shallow coastal waters.

taking measures in order to maintain improve air quality in respect of the relevant pollutants (Article 3)

12.12.90 reducing or eliminating pollution caused by various dangerous substances such as mercury and cadmium and their compounds, as well as organotin compounds.

a proposal seeking to extend the aforementioned directive to cover vessels in transit along the Community coastline

COASTAL WATERS AND SEAS In many cases, it is not until far from the actual source that the effects of marine pollution become visible.

All our coastal waters and coastlines are at risk from tankers carrying oil and other dangerous cargoes.

Aurelia aurita (also called the moon jelly, moon jellyfish, common jellyfish, or saucer jelly) is a widely studied species of the genus Aurelia .

It may occur in the Gulf of Mexico, north to Massachusetts, Bermuda and south to Brazil in tropical and temperate waters.

Based on a sequence of events such as this, which would call for a fundamental shift away from previous policy, it should be easily possible to define a structural policy for the fisheries sector.

If we are to learn anything from this incident, it must be to make our coastal and territorial waters safer.

This should also apply to the coast waters of the Irish Sea which are already dangerously polluted with radioactive waste.

Furthermore, the final stretch of the river and the adjacent coastal waters are included on the list of wetlands of the Community of Valencia.

Coastal lagoons

In other areas of the world, as fish stocks in coastal waters are progressively over exploited and depleted, the fishing industry is turning more and more to deep water species.

There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia the Amazonian manatee ( Trichechus inunguis ), the West Indian manatee ( Trichechus manatus ), and the West African manatee ( Trichechus senegalensis ).

The ringed seal ( Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida ), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal (family Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub Arctic regions.

The waters of the Agulhas Bank off the coast are quite shallow and are renowned as one of the best fishing grounds in South Africa.

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Coastal Transitional

The tucuxi ( Sotalia fluviatilis ), also a dolphin species, is found both in the rivers of the Amazon basin and in the coastal waters of South America.

BANGEMANN. (DE) As I already said, as well as the information given to us by Mrs Mcintosh we also have information of other cases of dredging.

Distribution Callinectes sapidus is native to the western edge of the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Cod to Argentina and around the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

I do promise the rapporteur and those others who have spoken in this debate that the various detailed recommendations in this report will be taken into account by the Commission in its further work in this area.

98 of these, however, are under 12 metres in length, which means the main fishery is being prosecuted in inshore waters and is of a largely artisanal nature.

In 2002, despite positively diluvian rainfall and flooding, as much as 98.5 of Europe s coastal waters complied with the directive s specifications.

BANGEMANN, Vice President of the Commission. (DE) The Commission thinks it desirable that the actions of dredging and fishing should hamper each other as little as possible.