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Managing the human activities that have an impact on Scotland’s seas
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Infrastructure - Coastal defence & land claim
The installation, operation and maintenance of coastal defence/erosion measures.
Associated productive assessment:
Coastal erosion and flood risk management
Associated pressures:
Barrier to species movement
Death or injury by collision above water
Death or injury by collision below water
Emergence regime changes - local
Introduction of light or shading
Litter
Physical change (to another seabed type)
Physical loss (to land or freshwater habitat)
Physical removal (extraction of substratum)
Reduction in availability or quality of prey
Salinity changes - local
Siltation rate changes (heavy)
Siltation rate changes (light)
Sub-surface abrasion/penetration
Surface abrasion
Underwater noise
Visual disturbance (behaviour)
Water clarity changes
Water flow (tidal current) changes - local
Wave exposure changes - local
