Infrastructure - Cables & pipelines (Operation & installation) | Scotland's Marine Assessment 2020

The installation, operation and maintenance of telecommunications cables and pipelines e.g. for oil and gas operations.

Associated productive assessment:

Oil and gas sector and infrastructure

Renewable energy

Associated pressures:

Barrier to species movement

Death or injury by collision above water

Death or injury by collision below water

Electromagnetic changes

Genetic modification and translocation of indigenous species

Introduction of light or shading

Introduction of microbial pathogens (disease), viruses or parasites

Introduction or spread of non-indigenous species and translocations (competition)

Physical change (to another seabed type)

Physical removal (extraction of substratum)

Reduction in availability or quality of prey

Siltation rate changes (heavy)

Siltation rate changes (light)

Sub-surface abrasion/penetration

Surface abrasion

Underwater noise

Visual disturbance (behaviour)

Water clarity changes