Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : E of Brown Rock Pladdy, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-31 GPS : 54.42917,-5.61683. Depth : 22.1 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Patchy Modiolus modiolus clumps covered with sediment (heavy siltation). Large Asterias rubens predating on Modiolus. Many large Echinus esculentus.

Species list (32 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Sublittoral mussel beds (on sublittoral sediment).