Carlingford Lough ASSI

The Department ofthe Environment for Northern Ireland (the Department), having consulted the
Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside and being satisfied that the area delineated
and described on the attached map (the area) is of special scientific interest by reason of its flora,
fauna and geological interest and accordingly needs to be specially protected, hereby declares
the area to be an area of special scientific interest to be known as the 'Carlingford Lough area of
special scientific interest'.