Clyde Sea Sill NCMPA - designation documents

Clyde Sea Sill Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area encompasses a persistent thermal front and an important area for black guillemots.

This NCMPA is located where the waters of the Irish Sea meet the calmer, less saline waters of the Clyde Sea, which creates the thermal front.

Its boundary stretches from the Mull of Kintyre to the Rhins of Galloway and includes the waters around the Sanda, Sheep and Glunimore islands.

Conservation objectives

Conserve the protected features of the Clyde Sea Sill NCMPA

Protected features

Biodiversity:

  • black guillemot
  • circalittoral and offshore sand and coarse sediment communities
  • fronts

Geodiversity: marine geomorphology of the Scottish shelf seabed – sand banks, sand ribbon fields, sand wave fields

Find out more on Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas

Related Links

Clyde Sea Sill Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area Order 2014

Document downloads

Marine Protected Area - Site Summary - Clyde Sea Sill

pdf, 1.34MB

Marine Protected Area - designation map - Clyde Sea Sill

pdf, 15.31MB

Marine Protected Area - Data confidence assessment - Clyde Sea Sill

pdf, 3.08MB

Marine Protected Area - Detailed Assessment Against the MPA Selection Guidelines - Clyde Sea Sill

pdf, 927.63kB

Marine Protected Area - management options paper - Clyde Sea Sill

pdf, 3.00MB

Contact

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