Common lobster (Credit Dereck Haslam)
An area of this MCZ is called Heartbreak Ridge due to the unpredictable delightful or disappointing catches caught on this rocky ridge.
Heartbreak Ridge, a hard rocky ridge found amongst sand and gravel, provides an ideal hiding place for common lobsters.
Compass Rose is located 30km off the Yorkshire coast and is approximately 50 metres deep throughout the area. The seafloor consists of sand, coarse sediment and rock and is home to several species of crustacean.
Located within the site are approximately 6.5km2 of hard rocky ground known as ‘Heartbreak Ridge’. Compass Rose provides spawning and nursery grounds for fish including plaice, herring, lemon sole, sandeel and sprat. During the summer months the area captures the most northerly section of the Flamborough Front, an upwelling of nutrients where the cooler northern and warmer southern waters of the North Sea mix, providing an important food source for marine mammals.
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 use this data as soon as possible and to consider this site as a high and urgent priority for designation in a future tranche:
This site is on hold at the moment. Defra has indicated that they require additional data before designating the site. Natural England and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee have identified this site as at risk from damage and degradation due to the presence of vulnerable habitats and species within the site. Defra also commissioned additional survey work for this site in 2012 which has not fed into this consultation.
We need you to urge Defra to use this data as soon as possible and to consider this site as a high and urgent priority for designation in a future tranche. The site should be protected from additional damage and degradation in the meantime.
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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