Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Cushendun North, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850731/21 Date: 1985-07-31 GPS: 55.13400,-6.03083. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: There was a very poor tide on the sampling date. Only the upper part of zone 3 was exposed at low water. The transect site is an irregular rock platform with large medium and small boulders and pebbles in depressions between rock outcrops. Most of the intertidal region is patellobarnacle dominated. Behind the transect, and to the south of the site, are high steep rock outcrops. To the north the site is bounded by a gully filled with block scree and boulders. The boulders are covered by Ulva (originally recorded as Enteromorpha) in the mid-lower shore region, indicating a freshwater influence. The laminarian zone was unsamplable, because of a high tide. However from a high outcrop, a dense Laminaria forest could be seen below zone 3. This was composed of Laminaria digitata and Saccharina latissima (originally recorded as Laminaria saccharina at the transect site itself, and Alaria further north.

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