Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Mill Quarter Bay (boulders), Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19851027/21 Date: 1985-10-27 GPS: 54.31700,-5.53300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: This a fucoid dominated shore, composed of boulders and low rock ridges. Boulders form the substrate on the upper and extreme lower shore, with low ridges (running perpendicular to the shoreline) on the mid and lower shore. The supralittoral is composed of shingle and sand, with a thick strand line. A lot of drift algae throughout the intertidal. The Laminaria zone became exposed to its greatest extent only after it was too dark to sample. The lower sampling limit was the bottom of Fucus serratus zone.