Shipping

Current vessel activities in the Arctic can be categorized into four main groups: community re-supply, cargo ships, fishing activity and tourism. The majority of vessel activity, and consequently ship accidents, takes place along the coast (Fig. 14.5). Therefore continental shelves, which are areas of high biodiversity and production and large aggregations of Arctic marine fauna, are most susceptible to impacts from ship traffic. (Arctic Biodiversity Assessment 2013.)

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LifeLinkedtoIce Pathways

 

Figure 38. Pathways of impacts on Arctic humans resulting from changes in sea ice and associated changes in biodiversity

Joan Eamer

 

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Eamer, J., Donaldson, G.M., Gaston, A.J., Kosobokova, K.N., Lárusson, K.F., Melnikov, I.A., Reist, J.D., Richardson, E., Staples, L., von Quillfeldt, C.H. 2013. Life Linked to Ice: A guide to sea-ice-associated biodiversity in this time of rapid change. CAFF Assessment Series No. 10. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Iceland. ISBN: 978-9935-431-25-7.

LifeLinkedtoIce Sea ice thickness

Note the scale differences between the two panels.

 

From Wang and Overland 2012 [17]

 

 

 

 

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Eamer, J., Donaldson, G.M., Gaston, A.J., Kosobokova, K.N., Lárusson, K.F., Melnikov, I.A., Reist, J.D., Richardson, E., Staples, L., von Quillfeldt, C.H. 2013. Life Linked to Ice: A guide to sea-ice-associated biodiversity in this time of rapid change. CAFF Assessment Series No. 10. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Iceland. ISBN: 978-9935-431-25-7.

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Figure 14.5. Locations of sub-Arctic and Arctic shipping accidents and incident causes, 1995-2004

(source: AMSA 2009).

 

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ᓇᓂ ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᑦ ᐱᓂᕐᓗᒃᓯᒪᔪᕕᓂᐅᓂᖏᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ
ᐱᕐᓘᕿᔪᕕᓂᐅᓂᖏᑦ 1995-2004 (AMSA, 2009)

 

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Места аварий и происшествий с морскими
судами в 1995-2004 гг. (AMSA, 2009)

 

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Figure 14.6. Number of ships a) transiting through the Northwest Passage (five year intervals, from 1975 to 2009), and b) landing in Greenland (cruise ships only, from 2003 to 2008. (Sources: AMSA 2009 and NORDREG 2009.)

 

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ᐊᒥᓲᓂᖏᑦ ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᑦ a) ᐃᑳᕆᐊᖅᑐᖅᑐᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑑᑉ ᑕᕆᐅᖓᒍᑦ ᓄᓇᕐᔫᑉ
ᐊᑭᐊᓄᐊᕐᕆᐊᕕᐅᔪᓐᓇᖅᑐᑎᒍᑦ (ᑕᓪᓕᒪᐃᑦ ᐊᕕᒃᑐᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᓪᓗᑎᒃ 1975−ᒥᒃ
2009-ᒧᑦ), ᐊᒻᒪᓗ b) ᒥᑦᑐᖃᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᑲᓛᖡᑦ ᓄᓈᓐᓄᑦ, ᐊᑯᑭᑦᑐᕐᒥᐅᑕᓄᑦ
(ᐳᓚᕋᑎᓖᑦ ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᑦ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ, 2003−ᒥᒃ 2008−ᒧᑦ). (AMSA−ᑯᓐᓂᒃ 2009
ᐊᒻᒪᓗ NORDREG−ᑯᓐᓂᒃ 2009.)

 

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Количество судов, а) прошедших по Северо-Западному проходу (с пятилетним
интервалом с 1975 по 2009 гг.), и b) заходы в Гренландию (только круизные суда, с 2003
по 2008 гг. (AMSA 2009 и NORDREG 2009.)

 

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Figure 16.1. Ship transits of the Northwest Passage 1906-2011. From the NWT State of the Environment report (ENR 2011) with data from NORDREG updated to 2012.

 

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Table 18.1. Marine incidents involving cruise ships in Arctic and Antarctic waters (the same vessels often alternate polar region according to season) (aggregated from reports from national coast guards, admiralty courts and insurers, and www.cruisejunkie.com).

 

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invasive shipping

Current marine shipping uses in the Arctic

 

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i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

 
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