Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Loughshore Park, Belfast Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860710/21 Date: 1986-07-10 GPS: 54.68000,-5.88200. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: There is a flat narrow sandy beach supralittorally which falls away abruptly down a steeply shelving gravel slope to about mid tide level. The normal two upper zones on a boulder shore dominated by fucoids - the Pelvetia and Fucus spiralis zones are therefore missing. The angular boulder, pebble and gravel intertidal is dominated by fucoids on the upper part of the intertidal and by barnacles, Mytilus, Mastocarpus and Littorina littorea on the lower part of the intertidal.