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Marine life found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Guernsey is the second largest island in the Channel Islands located between England and France. The gallery begins with general views of the bay followed by major groups of animals including sponges, cnidarians, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, ascidians, fishes and ending with some algae.
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sealord > This image and the following images of the pier at Salarie Corner need to be viewed together. This image was taken on 15 February 2003. It shows the pier with a covering of green algae, Enteromorpha sp. The following image in the series shows the pier approximately one year later with a covering of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis. Photographed on 15 Feburary 2003 File No. 2-632 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows the Salarie Corner pier on the 21 April 2003 just over two months after the previous image showing the green seaweed covered pier. The pier has been treated with a chlorinated substance to remove all the seaweed from its surface. File No. 210403 250 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The top surface of this pier at Salarie corner in Belle Greve Bay, which was completely clean of seaweed in April 2003 is covered on 9 March 2004 by an under-layer of green seaweed and a thick top layer of spiral or flat wrack, Fucus spiralis. The fronds of the spiral wrack are up to 18 inches long. This seaweed growth is one indication of the phenomenal productivity of Belle Greve Bay. Spiral wrack is a seaweed that thrives on sheltered shores. It grows near the top of the shore but below the band of channelled wrack, Pelvetia caniculata, which is the seaweed most suited to the upper shore because it tolerates desiccation.
sealord > This image shows the top of the quay or pier at Salarie Corner in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The quay is covered in layers of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis, on 9 March 2004. The previous April the quay was completely clear of seaweed. Each spiral wrack frond is about 18 inches long. File No. 090304 04 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows a close-up view of the thick layer of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis, covering the Salarie Corner pier on 9 March 2004. In April 2003 the pier was completely clear of seaweed. Each spiral wrack frond is about 18 inches long. File No. 090304 03 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The brown seaweed Fucus spiralis grows on the upper shore of Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. It tolerates some desiccation while the tide is out which gives it a competitive advantage over other seaweeds less able to tolerate the stress of several hours out of water. File No. 180407 8078 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows the holdfast of the brown seaweed, furbelows, Saccorhiza polyschides, in a tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. The knobs on the holdfast are reflective in the smooth surface water of the tide pool. Photographed on 5 November 2006. File No. 051106 4336 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image was taken with a Canon S80 digital camera in an underwater housing. I placed the camera on the bottom of a tide-pool in Belle Greve Bay and pointed the lens skywards to photograph the canopy of algae covering the surface of the water. This brown algae is Sargassum muticum, which is known as 'japweed' locally because it most likely arrived from Japan via France where it was introduced with a shipment of oysters. Photographed on 4 January 2007. File No. 040107 5299 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The brown seaweed Dictyota dichotoma in a tide pool in Belle Greve Bay, east coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Photographed on 2 April 2007. File No. 020407 7848 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a close-up view of the thick layer of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis, covering the Salarie Corner pier on 9 March 2004. In April 2003 the pier was completely clear of seaweed. Each spiral wrack frond is about 18 inches long.
File No. 090304 03
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
> This image shows a close-up view of the thick layer of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis, covering the Salarie Corner pier on 9 March 2004. In April 2003 the pier was completely clear of seaweed. Each spiral wrack frond is about 18 inches long. File No. 090304 03 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a close-up view of the thick layer of spiral wrack, Fucus spiralis, covering the Salarie Corner pier on 9 March 2004. In April 2003 the pier was completely clear of seaweed. Each spiral wrack frond is about 18 inches long.
File No. 090304 03
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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