Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Barney's Point, Larne Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860906/22 Date: 1986-09-06 GPS: 54.81483,-5.74300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect was taken across the intertidal to the south of the peninsula which forms Barney's Point. Most of the intertidal is made up of a fucoid dominated boulder shore with areas of mud and muddy gravel between the boulders. The lower shore is unusual, probably due to a muddy water current. Below zone 4 is an area of silty gravel, but much less muddier than the substrate in zone 3. Very little grows on the gravel except for a rare plant of Saccharina latissima (originally recorded as Laminaria saccharina) and again huge clumps of Hymeniacidon supporting the growth of other animals.

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