Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Carrstown Point, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860409/21 Date: 1986-04-09 GPS: 54.33883,-5.52100. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The site is mainly composed of Ascophyllum dominated rock ridges with gullies filled by coarse sand and boulders on the mid and lower shore. The vertical rock face which falls immediately below the upper shore and the tops of some ridges are patellobarnacle dominated. The main substrate is sharp sandstone ridges. The supralittoral is composed of a wide area of boulders and pebbles with small fissured rock ridge outcrops (supporting a good lichen diversity) protruding above the boulders. Another low Ascophyllum dominated rock ridge outcrop lies seaward of the coarse sand and boulder filled gully which houses zones 5 and 6, but it was not included in the transect.

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