Sea hare (Credit Tony Howells)
Yorkshires’ rockpools are fascinating! Look closely, and you'll catch a glimpse of a sea slug or a ribbon of eggs.
Delve amongst the kelp and discover tiny blue-rayed limpets, painted with delicate stripes of blue.
At 14.5km in length stretching from Scalby, north of Scarborough to Filey Brigg, this area is characterised by intertidal rock and sediment habitats, including unique underboulder communities.
Benthic life here is extremely rich, with over 225 creatures belonging to 10 different families recorded on Filey Brigg itself. This area provides a window into the world beneath the waves: home to seaweeds, sea hares, crabs and molluscs such as blue-rayed limpets. Dotted underneath rocks are anemones and sponges, alongside common starfish and brittlestars.
During the winter Filey Brigg supports 50% of the English purple sandpiper population, and, due to its close location to the Flamborough Headland, is important for foraging seabirds, such as kittiwakes.
This recommended Marine Conservation Zone is ON HOLD at the moment as Defra has indicated that there is not enough evidence to support designation.
We need you to urge Defra to commit to gathering additional data required and to consider designation of this site in a future tranche:
Although Defra has indicated that there is enough evidence to support designation of this site for six of the habitats and species recommended by stakeholders, additional information is needed for one of the habitats recommended.
The intertidal coarse sediments found within this site contribute to beach protection and provide feeding sites for wading birds and underboulder communities found within the site provide habitats for a range of species such as sponges and provide protection for fish from predators.
We need you to urge Defra to designate this site as soon as possible for those features that are deemed to have sufficient evidence and to commit to gathering additional data for designation of those remaining features.
Contains UKHO Law of the Sea data. Crown copyright and database right and contains Ordnance Survey Data Crown copyright and database 2012
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