Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Nr Strife Rk (S) Drift NW, Strangford Lough

[Site list for year 2003]

Survey number: 561 Event number: 20030730/01 Date: 2003-07-30 GPS: 54.44153,-5.60758. Depth: 17.8 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Nephrops norvegicus bed with Sagartia lacerata (previously known as Sagartiogeton laceratus). Muddy sediment with mainly small bits of dead shell. Some whole shells of Pecten maximus. Virgularia mirabilis present occasionally, Other areas of mostly featureless very soft mud with many Nephrops norvegicus burrows / Sagartia lacerata. Some empty turritellid shells in mud. Some scar marks.

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