STRANGFORD LOUGH
- Created by: ed bee
- Created on: 30-04-17 11:46
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- Strangford Lough
- Industrial.
- commercial farming
- trawling / netting = ecological damage
- fish farming
- algal blooms
- competition for space
- damage to area from chemicals used to control fish diseases.
- shellfish farming
- bird population disrupted.
- reduction in plankton
- introduction of alien shellfish - put species at risk e.g Manilla clam
- commercial farming
- transportation
- ferry between Portaferry and Strangford
- discharge from toilets
- anchors ruin sea bed
- ferry between Portaferry and Strangford
- Residential
- 12 miles from Belfast - opportunity for commuter housing
- Energy
- in 2008 - SeaGen installed
- worlds first marine turbine
- supply energy to 1500 homes
- in 2008 - SeaGen installed
- Recreation and Leisurte
- 2000 sailing boats + motor cruisers.
- windsurfing and Jet Skiing
- can cause physical disturbance
- habitats lost with slipways and mariners
- anti fouling chemicals, dumping refuse and discharge of toilets
- divers due to the cold water reef
- Conservation
- 2000 animal and plant species
- porpoises and basking sharks, and 7000 birds
- tidal mudftats conserved due to lots of wildlife
- Industrial.
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