The Davis Strait - DCE - Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi

6 Protected areas and threatened species 166
6.1 International nature protection conventions 166
6.2 National nature protection legislation 167
6.3 Threatened species 167
6.4 NGO designated areas 168
7 Contaminants, background levels and effects 170
7.1 AMAP Monitoring Activities 170
7.2 Conclusions on contamitant levels 173
7.3 Biological effects 173
8 Impacts of climate change 176
8.1 General context 176
8.2 Primary production and zooplankton 177
8.3 Benthic fauna 178
8.4 Fish and shellfish 179
8.5 Marine mammals and seabirds 181
8.6 Conclusions 181
9 Impact assessment 183
9.1 Methodology and scope 183
10 Impacts of the potential routine activities 185
10.1 Exploration activities 185
10.2 Appraisal activities 196
10.3 Development and production activities 197
10.4 Decommissioning 205
11 Impacts from accidental oils spills 206
11.1 Oil spills 206
11.2 Oil spills impacts on the environment 209
11.3 Oil spill sensitivity mapping 221
12 Preliminary identification of imformation needs and knowledge
gaps for environmental management and regulation of oil
acitivities in Davis Strait 226
12.1 Knowledge gaps 226
12.2 Knowledge gaps generic to the arctic 228
12.3 Proposal for a new environmental study programme 229
13 References 230