Identification

Title

Species point records from 1987 University of Dundee Inganess Bay and Wideford Burn sublittoral survey

Abstract

The grab survey showed that at the time Inganess Bay has very limited, largely wave-induced circulation with the central area of the bay being a depositing area where accumulation of additional material would be likely. This could lead to de-oxygenation of the sediment and water column with potentially damaging effects for any flora and fauna present. Looking at the Wideford Burn data it becomes obvious that the fish farm here is contributing 8-10 times more material than the natural content of the burn. Monitoring of the communities present will be a good indicator of how the fish farm effect the local area. Samples except from stations 1 & 2 were dominated by ampeliscid amphipods andpredatory polychaetes such as Lumbriconereis sp, Nephtys sp and Phyllodoce sp. There were relatively few tube dwellers and deposit feeders although the deposit feeder Ampharete sp was present in deeper stations. The samples were very similar for the most part but there was a tendency for an increase in diversity with depth. The communities were those of a muddy-sand environment but are unlike any of those recorded previously from Orcadian waters. Stations 17-20 showed a significantly greater diversity. These characteristics suggest that the bottom at present is organically-rich but at acceptable levels for the development of quite diverse communities: however, the limited water circulation may mean that the fauna could become radically altered by the addition of relatively small quantities of organic matter.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/70a69a64-ec10-4c92-9976-86fbb70ee317-1987-University-of-Dundee-Inganess-Bay-and-Wideford-Burn-sublittoral-survey.csv

name: 1987-University-of-Dundee-Inganess-Bay-and-Wideford-Burn-sublittoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

70a69a64-ec10-4c92-9976-86fbb70ee317

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Jones, Simpson, Atkins, Noble (1987) A survey of the potential impact of proposed fish farming developments on Inganess Bay and the lower reaches of Wideford Burn.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000682

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.92401577

East bounding longitude

-2.853533825

North bounding latitude

58.9918175

South bounding latitude

58.95637507

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1987-05-01

End position

1987-05-02

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1999-07-29

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

This survey was extracted from a Marine Recorder snapshot.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma Separated Values

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence v3.0

Limitations on public access

Not Known

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language

eng