Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Carnfunnock Bay, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860326/21 Date: 1986-03-26 GPS: 54.88483,-5.83700. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A moderately exposed basalt boulder shore with a storm beach of boulders and cobbles at the top. It is situated within a large bay on the open coast, and backed by a grass verge bordering the road A2. The intertidal consists of medium boulders of basalt with pebbles in between. The occasional large block occurs, but none on the transect site. A depression above a step occurs in the middle shore, the bed of which has pebbles and cobbles and scattered small boulders. This is probably a feature of wave action. The zonation is a mixture of fucoid and chloropatella and red algae. The fucoids tend to keep to the relative shelter of the depression.