Pollutant Type |
Land-based industry |
Municipal-based |
Sea-based industry |
Sediment |
Sediment from mining*,
agriculture, or forestry |
Sediment from coastal development |
Sediment
disruptions (e.g. dredging and aquaculture) |
Nutrient |
Nutrients (e.g. nitrogen, phosphorous, iron) from
agriculture, forestry, livestock |
Nutrients (e.g. nitrogen and
phosphorous) from wastewater, stormwater |
Increase in nutrients (e.g.
nitrogen and phosphorous) from aquaculture |
Plastics
|
Plastics from packaging and transport of products
|
Plastics from urban stormwater, and litter escaped from waste management
systems
|
Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear from vessels.
Plastics from aquaculture, shipping and offshore structures
|
Pharmaceuticals |
Pharmaceuticals used in animal agriculture |
Pharmaceuticals in wastewater from household waste, and medical
facilities |
Pharmaceuticals (e.g. anti-biotics and antiparasitic drugs)
from aquaculture |
Chemicals |
Chemicals, POPs and pesticides from agriculture,
mining, industrial wastewater and runoff |
Petroleum and household
chemicals from wastewater, and stormwater outlets |
Petroleum and
chemicals from shipping and offshore structures |