78f0d416-1ffa-4236-8d7b-58370adad572 eng series The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk pointOfContact 2015-11-02 MEDIN Discovery Profile 2.3.8 EPSG: 4326 2005-2006, Royal Haskoning, SeaGen Strangford Lough, Marine Species Visual Baseline Survey 2006-08-01 publication SL_5 Marine Current Turbines Ltd has been granted permission by the Environment and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland through provision of a Food and Environmental Protection (FEPA) Licence, to install an experimental marine current turbine in the Narrows of Strangford Lough.Strangford Lough supports a variety of marine habitats and communities, with over 2,000 recorded species and is important for wintering and breeding wetland birds, as well as for marine mammals, including seals, porpoises and dolphins. This variety and richness of habitats and species has led to the Lough being afforded the highest level of environmental protection namely, an international Ramsar Site, European Special Area of Conservation (candidate) and Special Protection Area. The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS), is the Government regulator for the Department of Environment, Northern Ireland (DOENI). Permission to install the turbine was granted by EHS on the condition that a rigorous and robust environmental monitoring project was implemented to ensure that any changes caused by the development, which might affect the integrity of the site, would be identified before significant impact occurs. The visual observation baseline report in this series presents the results of 13 months of species observation surveys. QUB have undertaken monthly surveys since May 2005 of marine mammals and important bird species, all of which have the potential to be affected by the installation and operation of the turbine. The result is a 13 month data set to June 2005 which forms an effective baseline from which all future observation data can be compared. Changes in the animal sightings and behaviour that occur during the 5 years of observations will now be detected through detailed statistical analysis of the data undertaken by biometricians at SMRU. It is anticipated that this will support any changes highlighted by visual interpretation of the future data sets. If actual significant changes are detected, detailed investigation will allow the Science Group (as advisors) and EHS (as regulators), to make judge whether the change detected is the direct result of the installation or operation of the turbine, before the integrity of the site is significantly impacted. Appropriate management action can then be undertaken. Marine Current Turbines Limited +44 (0)117 926 9906 St Brandon?s House, 27-29 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5QT http://www.marineturbines.com/ custodian Royal Haskoning Ltd 10, Bernard Street Leith Edinburgh EH6 6PP info@edinburgh.royalhaskoning.com http://www.royalhaskoning.com originator notPlanned .pdf Renewable Energy Lease area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Pre-Construction monitoring The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision 1 Cetacean abundance Cetacean behaviour Seal abundance Seal behaviour Bird counts Bird behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2015-09-09 revision 89 Marine Mammals Marine Birds Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword variables 2007-04-18 revision 4 Currents SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups 2015-02-04 revision 22 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx copyright otherRestrictions copyright otherRestrictions http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use. http://marinedataexchange.co.uk/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng biota oceans -5.613444 -5.493281 54.306874 54.402910 2005-05 2006-06 http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/search?q=#fq=fq%3DProject%253Amde3dsl1975 download https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1915/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. series Metadata generated by The Crown Estate for the purpose of publishing on the Marine Data Exchange.