State of the Solent: Edition 3 (2011)

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Key:

✔ The data for the indicator is available and has been collected for this edition.
* The data for the indicator is not available and so has not been collected for this edition but if data becomes available will be added in the future.
x This indicator is no longer thought to be suitable and has either been replaced or removed.
? Data collection currently incomplete.

Topic	Indicator No.	Indicator	Status 2004: Edition 2	Status 2011: Edition 3
1. Physical Environment and climate change	1.1	Mean Sea Surface Temperature	✔	✔
	1.2	Relative Sea Level Rise		✔
	1.3	Average Wave Height		✔
2. Nature Conservation	2.1	Wildfowl and wader counts	✔	✔
	2.2	Change in the extent of coastal habitats in the Solent	✔	*
	2.3	Condition of sites designated for nature conservation	✔	✔
	2.4	Loss / gain in area of land and sea protected by nature conservation designations	X	X
3. Transport / Ports and Shipping	3.1	Total volume of freight handled by Solent ports	✔	✔
	3.2	Economic importance of the ports industry in the Solent	*	*
	3.3	Employment reliant on the ports industry	*	*
	3.4	Number of shipping movements through the Eastern and Western Solent	✔	?
	3.5	Proportion of journeys taken by public transport	*	*
	3.6	Number of ferry passengers passing through the Solent’s ports	✔	✔
	3.7	Volume of traffic on major coastal roads	✔	✔
4. Environmental Quality	4.1	Compliance with the EC Shellfish Hygiene Directive	✔	✔
	4.2	Compliance with the EC Bathing Waters Directive	✔	✔
	4.3	Beach litter	✔	✔
	4.4	Water Body Classification in the Solent under the Water Framework Directive		✔
	Included in 4.4	Dangerous substances in water	✔	x
	Included in 4.4	High estimates of Nitrate and Orthophosphate from point sources in the Solent	✔	x
	4.5	Volume of oil spillages and discharges	*	*
5. Marine Industries	5.1	Economic importance of marine industry, excluding the port industry, in the Solent	*	*
	5.2	Employment reliant on marine industries in the Solent	*	*
	5.3	Diversity of the marine industry base in the Solent	*	*
6. Natural Resources	6.1	Number of salmon returning to the rivers Test and Itchen	✔	✔
	6.2	State of the main fish stock in the Solent	✔	✔
	6.3	Total fish landings for the Solent's ports, tonnage	✔	✔
	6.4	Number, size and average power of registered fishing vessels in the Solent	✔	✔
	6.5	Number of licences issued in the Solent and area / volume dredged	✔	✔
	6.6	Tonnage of marine aggregates landed in the Solent	✔	✔
	6.7	Levels of aggregates from secondary and recycled sources	*	*
7. Recreation and Tourism	7.1	Number of berths and moorings for recreational boating in the Solent	✔	✔
		Number of overnight stays in tourist accommodation on the Solent coast	*	x
	7.2	Intensity of recreational activity, land and water based	*	*
	7.3	Level of participation in coastal based recreation facilities in the Solent	*	*
	7.4	Visitor numbers to key attractions	✔	✔
	7.5	Attractions with environmental quality management plans	*	*
8. Safety and Emergency Planning	8.1	Health and safety incidents in the Solent	✔	✔
9. Human Settlement, Land Use and Management	9.1	Change in the area and type of developed land in the coastal zone	✔	*
	9.2	Use of Brownfield as opposed to Greenfield sites for development on the coast	✔	✔
	9.3	Change to the seascape of the Solent	*	*
	9.4	Number / percentage of landscape features lost, degraded or enhanced	*	*
	9.5	Changes in landscape assessments carried out by local authorities	*	*
	9.6	Number, extent, quality and degree of landscape and seascape improvement schemes	*	*
	9.7	Perceived quality of the coastal landscape	*	*
10. Coastal Risk Management	10.1	Length of protected and defended coastline	✔	✔
	10.2	Rate of relative sea level rise and number of stormy days	✔	Now indicator 1.2
	10.1 supplementary information	Change in Shoreline Management Plan Policy	*	✔
	10.3	Natural, Human and economic assets at risk from coastal flooding	*	*
11. Historic Heritage and Maritime Archaeology	11.1	Number of sites recorded on the sites and monuments record	✔	✔
	11.2	Buildings and monuments at risk of decay	✔	✔
	11.3	Area and number of designated conservation areas for heritage and archaeology	*	*

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State of the Solent: Edition 3 (2011)