Report designed to assist Natural England (NE) with decision making concerning the designation of new marine Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). This report focuses on the proposed outer Morecambe Bay, Shell Flat and Lune Deep area.
The report includes a review of the literature and data available and that acquired from the resultant survey. The survey included both acoustic track data and ground-truthing such as drop-down video and grab samples. from the survey data biotope maps were drawn to fill in the gaps.
Finally, all of the information presented is reviewed and its compliance with SAC site selection discussed.
