Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Taggart Island, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860711/21 Date: 1986-07-11 GPS: 54.41283,-5.63500. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The location is typical of the shores of the drowned drumlins of the western side of Strangford Lough. The island is used for grazing sheep and cattle and uninhabited. The shore is sheltered medium and large igneous boulders on top of gravelly and muddy sand, with a single upper shore. The topography consists of small bays and headlands all with the same boulder habitat, but varying steepness of profile. An area of muddy sand is present containing many Arenicola and Ulva (originally recorded as Enteromorpha) mats. The shore zonation is fucoid with Ascophyllum dominant in the middle shore. Ulva (originally recorded as Enteromorpha) is common. Offshore, the bottom is shallow and appears to be sedimentary in nature.

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