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2012 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Ulva, Danna and the McCormaig Isles (UDMI) SSSI intertidal site condition monitoring survey

Publisher
Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Updated
16 June 2025
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

The main purpose of this intertidal survey of the Ulva, Danna and the McCormaig Isles SSSI, undertaken by Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. (ASML) for SNH on the 9th and 10th May 2012, were to provide sufficient information for site condition assessment. Intertidal sediment infauna and epibiota species abundance data and associated habitat descriptors were collected in-situ. Some baseline data were also collected for future SCM, including some infaunal core samples taken for laboratory analysis.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
09 June 2025
Harvest GUID
9c31373b117a1a23b190f953569f70cd
Extent (Latitude)
56.0000° to 55.9000°
Extent (Longitude)
-5.7000° to -5.6000°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2014-12-31
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
Not to be used for navigation. Native oyster was recorded during survey. SNH Sensitive species policy regards instances of Native oyster (Ostrea edulis) species occurrences and instances of biotope Ostrea edulis beds on shallow sublittoral muddy mixed sediment (SS.SMx.IMx.Ost/ SS.IMX.Oy) as sensitive, as commercial fishing is threatening stocks. As such SNH would not release such records in response to an Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 request at a resolution below that provided by a
Responsible party
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters (owner, originator); NatureScot (HQ Inverness) (custodian); Aquatic Survey & Monitoring Ltd. (originator); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) (distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng