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Introduction
Perhaps
the first thing to do is to explain what we mean by "the Irish Sea".
Really there's only one sea on the planet of course, because the
oceans are all one body of water, but for the purpose of this section
we'll take the Irish Sea as being the area between Rathlin Island,
Moyle District, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland and the Mull of Kintyre,
Argyll, Scotland in the north and Hook Head, Co. Wexford, Republic
of Ireland and St. Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire, Wales in the south.
That includes the North Channel and St. George's Channel. However,
if you detect some bias towards the seas around the northwest of
England we can only apologise! We are trying hard to put this right
with time, hopefully with your help.
The
most accessible and possibly the greatest wildlife
resource of the Irish Sea lies in its estuaries: particularly
the Dee Estuary, the Mersey Estuary, the Ribble Estuary,
Morecambe Bay, the Solway Firth, Loch Ryan, the Firth
of Clyde, Belfast Lough, Strangford Lough, Carlingford
Lough, Dundalk Bay, Dublin Bay and the Wexford Slobs.
More information on some of these can also be found
through the PISCES
website and the Links
section of this site. However, lots of wildlife also
depends on the cliffs, saltmarshes and sand dunes
of the adjoining shores, the seabed and the open sea
itself. Because the wildlife offshore is less accessible
to most people it's generally the least well known
and understood so we'll try to concentrate on that.
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