Identification

Title

UK Biodiversity Indicator B5b, Marine pollution

Abstract

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator B5b, Marine pollution. Pollution by hazardous heavy metals and pesticides can have adverse effects on the marine environment and biodiversity. Pollutants enter coastal waters either directly from point sources on UK coasts and estuaries or are carried via rivers. One of the goals of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the OSPAR Convention) is to implement the Hazardous Substances Strategy by making progressive endeavours, through appropriate actions and measures, to move towards the targets of the cessation of discharges, emissions and losses of hazardous substances by the year 2020. The indicator shows changes in the relative input of six of the most hazardous substances to the UK marine environment; five heavy metals (cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc) and one organic compound, lindane (also known as gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane). While many measures have already been put in place to prevent these persistent contaminants from entering the environment (e.g. bans on lead in petrol, marketing restrictions on the use of cadmium and mercury, a ban on the use of lindane), there are still reservoirs of these contaminants from legacy use in soils and sediments which are mobilised by various weather events. This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator B5b the latest data are for 2013. The supporting technical document details the methodology used to create the indicator.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6183

name: page-6183

Unique resource identifier

code

75f588c0-9f92-4082-b9e0-ae5b5f05c9a0

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6183 Data set supported by a Word document (B5b - Marine pollution.docx) containing all of the website text, and two jpeg images (UKBI2015_B5bi_FinalV2.jpg, UKBI2015_B5bii_Final.jpg).

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

UK Biodiversity

Evidence

Biodiversity

cadmium

copper

heavy metal

indicator

lead

lindane

mercury

zinc

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65

East bounding longitude

2.0

North bounding latitude

61.0

South bounding latitude

49.77

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1990

End position

2013

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source: Defra Marine Strategy and Evidence Division, using data provided by: Environment Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Excel for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from Defra Marine Strategy and Evidence Division, using data provided by: Environment Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, and Scottish Environment Protection Agency, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language