Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

S of Parton Island, Strangford Lough

[Site list for year 2003]

Survey number: 561 Event number: 20030731/02 Date: 2003-07-31 GPS: 54.46873,-5.62517. Depth: 12.7 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Featureless mud at the start with parallel straight markings. Later mud with dead shell covered in a thin layer of sediment. Shells mostly Venerupis, occasional Ostrea and Modiolus. Patches of larger shells of Modiolus. In shallower water, many prawns on mud.

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