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.
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.
Conserve the protected features of the Clyde Sea Sill NCMPA
Biodiversity:
Geodiversity: marine geomorphology of the Scottish shelf seabed – sand banks, sand ribbon fields, sand wave fields
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Clyde Sea Sill Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area Order 2014