Pobie Bank Reef SAC
Status: Designated
Description
Site overview
This is a stony reef that provides a home to lots of sponges and bryozoans, which are found throughout the site. In the shallowest areas, the bedrock and boulders support encrusting algae, and cup sponges In the deepest areas, below 100m. The bedrock is home to sponges, cup corals and brittlestars.
MPA Type
Special Area of ConservationSpecial Areas of Conservation (SACs) are strictly protected sites designated under European legislation. They contribute both to the UK MPA network and set up to protect habitat types and species considered to be most in need of conservation at a European level (excluding birds).
Designation date
1 October 2012Surface Area
965.99 km2 (372.97 mi.2)Perimeter
190.87 km (118.60 mi.)-
Reefs
Areas where the bedrock, stable boulders and cobbles or structures created by animals arise from the surrounding seabed. They attract and provide a home to a huge variety of plant and animal life.
Did you know?…
To the shelf limits, Scotland has 61% of UK waters, of which 23% are now in existing or new ‘marine protected areas’
An area over 9 times the size of Wales is now in marine protected areas in the UK, but less than 1% is considered by MCS scientists to be well managed
Over 500,000 records on undersea habitats and species have been collected by volunteer Seasearch divers providing significant evidence for inshore ‘marine protected areas’