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2.1.5 Photographic coverage

Little of the Cardigan Bay sea area has been formally photographed other than by satellite passes. Most formal photographic coverage of Cardigan Bay has been of satellite or aerial images of the coastline. In the late 1990’s CCW commissioned aerial photographs of the Cardigan Bay cSAC coastline for their Phase 1 Intertidal Survey. These were taken at low water spring tide.

Aerial photographs of the county, including coastal areas, have been taken regularly since the 1940’s. There is a directory of UK aerial photograph collections [15] and aerial photographs are available from The Control Registry for Photography in Cardiff.

There is a poor photographic record of the Cardigan Bay seabed and its marine communities, though some photographs and video footage have been taken as a result of the few marine biological surveys conducted in the area. Many additional photographs may have been taken by recreational divers.

Old photographs of the coast do exist (though no collections have been located) and these can provide an impression of the level and types of coastal activity that used to occur within the site.

Photographs of the bottlenose dolphins have been taken during recent photographic identification surveys as well as opportunistically by local community members and visiting tourists.

[15] Directory of aerial photographic collections in the United Kingdom. 1999. NAPLIB. ISBN 0953043614