Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Kircubbin Point, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850625/21 Date: 1985-06-25 GPS: 54.48583,-5.54300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The site is a fucoid dominated boulder shore, but with sedimentary stretches containing pebbles and muddy gravel. The transect stretches across a fairly steep upper shore and a fairly flat Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus dominated lower shore. The boulders at the transect site itself are fucoid dominated; to the south of the site, the boulders on the steep upper shore are patellobarnacle, while the lower shore remains fucoid dominated. Sampling of the sediment in zone 3 revealed only Arenicola, Nephtys and other polychaetes.

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